Creating prototype.

Figure 8. SteelAce-s block and it's crosscut. On the plan and crosscut are placed cylindrical detail side and top views. Details coloured green and white are generated with Hasco standard components catalogue, but views which colour is blue are drawn by designer. Additionally are placed positions and generated bill of materials with Hasco standard element cataloque. Download

 

Figure 9. Detail views are coloured with red and green colors and cylinder side views outer boundaries are corrected. This drawing is as if in "ready" status for inserting cylinders. Also Hasco bill of materials is converted to SteelAce. Download

Figure 10. SteelAce's prototype. There views on plan are defined with "Replace" command (as "anonymous cylinders") and after that side wiews are associated to them with "Cylinder" command. Cylinder Position 1. have also cylinder-like outer boundary, but part of it is on invisible layer, so we can see part of outer boundary like spring. Lower big cylinder what will be used as tail in future was inserted using two closed polylines (Chapter 6.3). Download

 

Designing progressive die.

Figure 11. Cylinders on plan are arranged with different commands like "ace_translate" , "ace_array" , "replace" ,"assoc" (Chapter 2). SteelAce-s block was changed with "dynamicbox" command. Contours what were needed to generate that die are placed on drawing levels "scheme" and "ext defining". Download

Figure 12. Crosscut created with "cc" command.

Figure 13. 3d picture of the model, what SteelAce uses generating views and crosscuts of that progressive die. That can be generated using "satout" command on command line or file pop menu. Download

 

Stripper plate drawing.

Figure 14. Detail drawing created using "masstranslate" , "cut detail" , "massdim" and "cds" commands. Download

Also it is possible to make NC programs for manufacturing these details. Tere are some samples for manufacturing Stripper plate:

1) Centering program for milling machine "Maho" Download

2) Contours for wirecutting machine "Agie" Download

3)Contours for wirecutting machine "Charmilles" Download