The FILE menu has a sub-menu called LOAD SECTION which has the option, EDIT HOLE. This option, also available in the icons shown in Fig. 10.2-E, as well as the keys SHIFT F2, gives access to theA.P. Editorboring application. This application is available only if a file is loaded. Its purpose is to provide a help for the boring procedures and seek the optimization of such operations. It specifically helps to define holes on the entire panel and to create an optimised program code for executing these holes. Having an optimised program means having a program that chooses the most appropriate path and bits for executing the work in the shortest time possible. Once launched, the application appears as shown in Fig. 10.16.
The Menu Bar is the same as that of the Contour program; however, some of the menu options are not available because they correspond to operations which are not enabled in the boring environment. Instead, the options CONTOURS and DIAGNOSTIC are enabled; these options are not active in the default environment.
Also the auxiliary icons are changed to reflect the commands used in this environment. The CONTOURS icon replaces the EDIT HOLE icon to return to the main environment. Instead of the FIND/REPL. icon there is the OPTIMIZE icon, and instead of the DRAW icon there is the DIAGNOSTIC icon.
Figure 10.16: EDIT HOLE Window
As for the Editor icons, only the Configurable Assisted Editor icons are present. These icons can be used to select the boring operations to be carried out on the panel shown in the main body of the window. Therefore, by clicking on one of these icons, an Assisted Editor box is displayed, in which all the parameters necessary for executing the group of holes represented by the icon are defined. In theAppendixpart of this manual all the possible holes available with the assisted editor are listed.
When one or more groups of holes are drilled, it can be observed that the holes may be identified by different colours on the panel. These colours are associated to particular groups of holes and can be configured by means of theTableson theA.P. Technical Data.
One colour defines the holes with a depth greater than or equal to the thickness of the panel. The default colour for these holes is white.
Instead, black is the default colour for the holes which do not pass through the panel, that is holes with a depth less than the thickness of the panel. There is also a colour, yellow by default, to indicate when a group of holes has been selected.
To select a group of holes, simply click with the left mouse button on one of the holes in the group; using the four arrows, the selected groups can be alternated. A single selected hole is red by default. To move quickly among the various holes in a group, press thespaceon the keyboard. The selected holes are called holes in the edit phase.
The MODIFY can be used to change, at the user’s discretion, some of the parameters. This can also be accom- plished by means of the right mouse button. By using one of these two methods, an assisted editor box is opened in which all of the desired changes can be made.
If a group of holes is to be eliminated, simply use the DELETE ROW command; instead, to copy a line, use the COPY ROW command. With the latter operation, an assisted editor box is displayed where the characteristics of the copied group of holes must be defined.
When the process of configuring the boring of the panel is completed, it is advisable to perform an optimisation using the OPTIMIZE command, available either from the accessory icons Fig. 10.2-E, or as an option from the SERVICES menu.
If the optimisation is successful, a program code is created and displayed in the OPTIMIZED DRILLINGS section of the LOAD SECTION sub-menu of he FILE menu, which allows the drilling to be executed in the shortest time possible.
If the optimisation is not successful, a diagnostic window is displayed (Fig. 10.17), theA.P. Technical Datais opened, although without access to themachine dataand theA.P. Editorin the boring environment is minimised
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Figure 10.17: DIAGNOSTIC Window
The diagnostic window corresponds to the group of holes that has caused an error in the optimisation phase; by clicking on holes, or groups of holes, the errors displayed by the diagnostic window change. TheA.P. Technical data, instead, opens to verify that the errors are not due to an incorrect tooling up. Access to themachine datais once again available when the diagnostics is closed, either through the icon in the group shown in Fig. 10.2-E, or with the DIAGNOSTIC option on the SERVICES menu. Once the errors or the tooling up has been corrected, the optimisation procedure must be repeated.