In a product like this one,

- Select .
A PPR context with an empty Machining Cell is created. An empty Activities Process Tree opens automatically.
- Create a generic machine or assign a machine from the database.
As soon as a machine is assigned to the Machining Cell, a Part Operation and a Manufacturing Program are created in the Activities Process Tree.
- Alternatively, open an existing Machining Process or PPR context .
By default,
the
Activities Process Tree opens
automatically.
Create Pocketing
operation:
- Click
Prismatic Machining Operations.
- Click
Pocketing and create a first Pocketing operation
on the first square cut-out.
- Create a second Pocketing
operation using the same tool on the first triangular
cut-out.
When creating these pockets, make
sure that the Island Detection contextual
command is not active before you select the pocket bottom.
Right-click the Manufacturing Program
and select Compute Tool Path.
- Select
the Compute if necessary option in the pop-up
that appears.


Select the second Pocketing operation in the Manufacturing Program.
- Click
Utilities.
- Click
Copy-Transformation Instruction in the Copy/Tracut Operations sub-toolbar.
A Copy-Transformation is inserted in the
Manufacturing Program after Pocketing.2 and the Copy-Transformation
dialog box appears.


In the dialog box, click
Add Operations
:
- Using Ctrl, select the two Pocketing operations in the Activities Process Tree.
- Double-click in the authoring window to end the selection and revert to the dialog box.
Note:
The selected Machining Operations must have
the same tooling.
The Copy-Transformation Instruction is applied to
these two Machining Operations.

The dialog box is updated:

- Move Up
and Move Down
allow you to move the selected Machining Operation up or down
in the list.
-
Delete
allows you to delete selected Machining Operations.
Define the Copy-Transformation Instruction, for example:
- Set the Number of copies (N) to 3,
- Set Ordering to Each operation N times.
- Set the Transformation type
to Translation.
- Set the Translation type to Absolute
Coordinates.
- Set the Distance
along X to -100mm.

Click Tool Path Replay
to visualize the tool path resulting from the defined
Copy-Transformation Instruction.
With the Each operation N times
Ordering setting, the transformation is applied to the
3 square cut-outs first then to the 3 triangular cut-outs.

With the All operations N times
Ordering setting, the transformation is applied to the
first set of square and triangular cut-outs, then the
second set, and finally the third set.

Click OK to create the
Copy-Transformation Instruction in the Manufacturing Program.