Creating a Manufacturing Document

This task shows you how to initialize the manufacturing structure from the engineering structure
in a separate .CATPart document, keeping the link to the engineering .CATPart.

Available in Composites Design for Manufacturing (CPM).
An engineering structure must already exist.
Open the ManufacturingData1.CATPart document.
  • When the manufacturing preparation part is generated/synchronized, identification information is added to the engineering part. This information is absolutely necessary to allow the composites entities to be recognized (and therefore not recreated) during future synchronizations. Therefore, it is mandatory to save the engineering part if the long warning message appears.
  • To avoid the long warning message, launch the c:prepare for synchronization command from power input. This concerns
    • the engineering designer before generating the manufacturing preparation part,
    • or the manufacturing designer before the synchronizing the manufacturing part.

  1. Click the Creates manufacturing Document icon .
    The Manufacturing data generation dialog box is displayed.

  2. Choose whether you want to create the manufacturing data in a new or an existing part.

    • New part (with all specifications):
      a new .CATPart document opens and manufacturing data are created in this part.
    • Existing part (with all specifications):
      this option is useful if you want to generate the manufacturing preparation data in a precise CATPart.
      The File Selection dialog box is displayed.
      Select a CATPart document.

      Click Open.

    Manufacturing data is created within this part.

  1. Choose whether you want to create the manufacturing data As Result or not:

    When the As Result check box is selected:
    • performances are increased,
    • the size of the manufacturing data is reduced,
    • the manufacturing part needs not be validated in case of updates:
      • history of the ply contours is not kept,
      • the links to geometry are not kept except that to the support surface.
      • all the features constituting the engineering contour are merged into one result contour.

    This As Result contour is managed as any other contour (e.g. you can apply material excess or darts, etc. to it).

    Synchronization on the resulting manufacturing part is available:

    • the check is done ply by ply.
    • Status are displayed for each ply:
      • Created: ply has been created during the operation,
      • Deleted: ply has been deleted during the operation,
      • Modified: play has been modified during the operation. In this case, the details of the modification will be given:
        • material has changed,
        • orientation has changed,
        • resulting contour has changed.

    The details of the modification are only listed during the creation of the manufacturing part or during synchronization.

    The contours in the As Result manufacturing part are marked with a red cross:

     
 

  1. Click OK.

    The engineering part contains:
    • preliminary design data (zones, transition zones, ITPs),
    • the engineering definition of the plies in the stacking  (Composites Geometry, Contour).

    The manufacturing part contains:

    • the manufacturing definition of the plies in the stacking (Composites Geometry, Contour).

 
Note that:
  • core samples and numerical analysis will not be generated in the manufacturing preparation data.
  • only a simple copy (with no link) of the producibility parameters will be generated.

The Skin Swapping and Material Excess icons are available in the Manufacturing Toolbar.