Any tool and die people here?
Any tool and die people here?
(OP)
I check this board every now and again for information. This is the most helpful site I've seen including the UGS new group, even though John Baker is on both. Anyhow, since I work for a stamper/die shop most of my work consists of designing dies and check fixture. I've seen posts every once in a while by someone asking questions relating to our field. I was wondering how many there are here and how they go about using UG for their designs, ie assemblies, die wizzard, other apps. There just doesn't seem to be much out there relating to tool and die, and support for the progressive die wizzard seems non-existant.





RE: Any tool and die people here?
You could try asking something more specific I know there are some Mold Wizard posts from time to time maybe you'll get lucky!
Cheers
Hudson
RE: Any tool and die people here?
NX 5.0.3.2 MoldWizard
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NX 4 Mold wizard
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Smitty
www.changes-consulting.com
RE: Any tool and die people here?
We are doing the same thing except we are still working on being satisfied with our process. There are only 2 of us in this department with only around 4 years experence. We did get the Progressive Die Wizard but have found it very hard to use, not many standard items like cylinders, cams, etc. I guess you can get Anchor Danly and other vendor templetes for the PDW for a fee or a 3rd party add-on. But we still found it sorely lacking and support non existant. We are going to take a second look at at when we migrate to NX5 (G.M. supplyer requirements). But most likely we won't use it and will be looking for suggestions and design processes from other experienced die designers. I still don't understand how to use the BOM on a drawing or that auto ballon.
RE: Any tool and die people here?
Smitty
www.changes-consulting.com
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If you want to try the auto stuff yourself, here are some of my notes:
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Make the component the displayed part before editing attributes, editing at assembly level has a different effect (can be seen by the icon next to the parameter name).
Component attributes: DESCRIPTION, SUPPLIER, CATALOG
Attributes to hide items from stock list:
PLIST_IGNORE_MEMBER (hides component only, sub-components still visible)
PLIST_IGNORE_SUBASSEMBLY (hides component and all sub-components)
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Place "parts list" on drawing, select a column, insert additional columns. Select the new column, right click Style, set attribute name under columns tab [CATALOG, SUPPLIER, etc]
Select parts list and update, then sort.
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NX 5.0.3.2 MoldWizard
RE: Any tool and die people here?
Having used NX5 for less than a year (no prior unigraphics expierience), I found moldwizard to be a horrible pain to learn. I'm still learning every day. The whole wizard is a different style from native NX, and many of the dialogs are terribly difficult to understand (such as buttons without labels!).
I think everything relating to the parting part is a catastrophe, it is especially difficult to tweak the parting line or mold csys.
Documentation is quite poor. I agree that many specific detailed steps are shown well enough, but the how/why overview and best practice is missing.
NX 5.0.3.2 MoldWizard
RE: Any tool and die people here?
This may be true in your case, but in general the parts list (auto BOM as you say) is preferred because it is associated to what is actually in the assembly and will update along with assembly changes. An imported note can get out of synch pretty quickly.
That's not to say that your method is 'wrong' or even 'bad', if it works for you - great that's one more way to skin your cat.
RE: Any tool and die people here?
For example, mating screws to the planar face of a plate will keep them updated if the thickness changes, but the [significant] time spent mating would allow manual repositioning a couple times. The plate thickness is not likely to change, certainly not many times. To be efficient then, you have to skip mating. This is completely reversed if designing a library moldbase which will be used again and again.
Anyway, I'm beating a long dead horse and we probably agree it's nice to have options.
NX 5.0.3.2 MoldWizard
RE: Any tool and die people here?
The moldwizard will be updated or the v3 is the latest version? Any function/commands are unparametrized/non-associative and the mold modification is big problem for me. e.g I use the parting manager, and I create parting segments, but the product data is changed, these non-associative elements are not follow the modifications.
I am also Injection mold designer :)
regards,
jr from HU
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Moldwizard has been updated in NX6 to follow the newer style dialogs and add some new functionality, looks promising. I'm upgrading in the next week or so.
NX 5.0.3.2 MoldWizard
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You could make the same claim about much of the software taking "significant" effort - at least until you get enough experience to use it efficiently.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson
RE: Any tool and die people here?
On another matter, I've been using UG since version 6 or so. Sometimes I wonder if these software designers ever turned a wrench in their life or had a deadline and budget to get a job done. It seems like with every new version of NX it takes me a little bit longer to do my job. Take away a button push here and 2 mouse picks there if you know what I mean. Well, now that I've gotten that off of my chest – good luck.
RE: Any tool and die people here?
I use fastners which contains a false body, then link that body into each component to makes the holes. Therefore, no misalignment is between components is possible. The fastner could end up in a relative unwanted position (off center, etc) but as each component is custom made to my geometry, that mistake wont prevent things from going together.
Remember, we work on Very different kinds of projects!
NX 5.0.3.2 MoldWizard