Representation of sheet metal part models
AssigneeAmada Company, Limited
InventorsMasanobu Ishii, Satoshi Sakai, Thanapandi Periasamy
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Abstract
Data for a 3D sheet metal part model is stored in a file. The stored data includes features of the part and manufacturing information. When different manufacturing processes are used, different geometry can be created. The file can store multiple processes for manufacturing the part and the geometry associated with each process. Thus, when manufacturing the part, the user can view information for multiple stored processes because all of the information is stored together. In addition, both 2D and 3D data is stored for the part.
Claims4
A system for constructing a 3D sheet metal part data file, comprising:
- a template selector that selects a template based upon a manufacturing process selected by a user when reviewing specification data;
- a manufacturing database that stores templates that can be selected by the template selector, the templates enumerating parameters for a plurality of manufacturing processes;
- a semantic feature generator that calculates template parameters and receives template parameters input by the user;
- a memory that stores geometric feature data of a 3D sheet metal part and manufacturing data of the 3D sheet metal part, the geometric feature data and the manufacturing data being based upon input parameters, calculated parameters, and specification data, and the geometric feature data being based upon the manufacturing data, such that the geometric feature data is changed when the manufacturing data is changed,
- a manufacturing feature archiver configured to process manufacturing data input by the user, to detect the 3D sheet metal part that corresponds to the manufacturing data, and to store the geometric feature data in the memory,
- wherein a 3D sheet metal part data file is constructed, the 3D sheet metal part data file comprising the geometric feature data of the 3D sheet metal part and the manufacturing data of the 3D sheet metal part.
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