Using SWX for Automotive Checking Fixture Designs?
Using SWX for Automotive Checking Fixture Designs?
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Any issues in dealing with imported math data?
Any issues with offsetting surfaces?
Where is there a good source for standard components?
I am new to SWX for checking fixture design. Previously I was using Cimatron 12.
Thanks.
Any issues with offsetting surfaces?
Where is there a good source for standard components?
I am new to SWX for checking fixture design. Previously I was using Cimatron 12.
Thanks.






RE: Using SWX for Automotive Checking Fixture Designs?
UG and Pro/E data import is pretty tame. CATIA is a wild bear. We learned it was most cost-effective to have an outside source <http://www.mathdata.com> translate CATIA files to parasolid for us. The CATIA files were complex auto interior consoles, so import through translators rarely worked well. The time savings of a good, clean translation was worth the cost.
CATIA also has issues w/ holding parallel faces parallel. This is endemic to CATIA, not the result of translation.
Offsetting surfaces not a problem. Only a problem if the surface itself is mathematically not able to be offset or otherwise corrupt.
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RE: Using SWX for Automotive Checking Fixture Designs?
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RE: Using SWX for Automotive Checking Fixture Designs?
RE: Using SWX for Automotive Checking Fixture Designs?
I'm looking for Hinge Drop & Drop Template CAD files. Mappel, I'm sure you use these components in your designs right?
RE: Using SWX for Automotive Checking Fixture Designs?
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RE: Using SWX for Automotive Checking Fixture Designs?
Also most swing templates use the same components with different size angles so you could do the same thing for those with an assembly file using your angle.
RE: Using SWX for Automotive Checking Fixture Designs?
I also found those components at www.equivalentbase.com.
Looks like you folks do good work. Do you design/build fixtures for sheet metal parts too? Is SWX doing a good job in that application?
I'm preparing to design Checking Fixtures (CF's) on contract bases therefore I'm looking for input to help with my transition.
Thanks again.
RE: Using SWX for Automotive Checking Fixture Designs?
How are you dealing with CATIA file importing problems? Outsourcing the translation or dealing with it in-house?
Thanks.
RE: Using SWX for Automotive Checking Fixture Designs?
We also have CATIA, and Cimatron so we do all our own translation in-house.
RE: Using SWX for Automotive Checking Fixture Designs?
So what is your primary software you CNC program with?
You can do both in Cimatron E but it's expensive software right? Ideally you may only need one CNC programming package and one or more seats of the same design package to supply the CNC programmer.
Perhaps you just have older(unsupported) packages around you still use and people who want to use them right?
Just a side note, you company history sounds very familiar to me. I'm just east of Toronto and there are plenty of shops around. Many of them have closed over the years. It's a tight($$$) business to be in from my experience. You folks look very progressive and that's a good thing.
RE: Using SWX for Automotive Checking Fixture Designs?
We looked at going all to Cimatron back in 2004 but the software was not the best for doing designs and it is expensive. All of our software is supported we just got Solidworks 2008 in the mail but we'll most likely wait until at least service pack 1.
RE: Using SWX for Automotive Checking Fixture Designs?
I'm still waiting for my SWX 2008 Premium to arrive. Glad to hear SWX is working for you.