Overview

Prismatic Machining enables you to define and manage NC programs dedicated to machining parts designed in 3D wireframe or solids geometry using 2.5 axis machining techniques. This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the Prismatic Machining product.

Prismatic Machining in a Nutshell

Prismatic Machining offers an easy-to-use and easy-to-learn graphic interface that makes it suitable for shop floor-oriented use. Moreover, its leading edge technologies together with a tight integration with design methodologies and the digital manufacturing environment, fully satisfy the requirements of office programming. Prismatic Machining is a unique solution that reconciliates office and shop floor activities.

It is integrated to a Post Processor Access execution engine, allowing the product to cover the whole manufacturing process from tool trajectory (APT source) to NC code.

This product is particularly adapted for tooling and simple machined parts, and is also an ideal complement to other manufacturing applications.

Prismatic Machining offers the following main functions:


  • 2.5 axis milling and drilling capabilities
  • Management of tools and tool catalogs
  • Flexible management of the manufacturing program with intuitive and easy-to-learn user interface based on graphic dialog boxes
  • Tight interaction between tool path definition, verification and generation
  • Seamless NC data generation thanks to an integrated Post Processor Access solution
  • High associative level of the manufacturing program ensures productive design change management thanks to the integration with modeling capabilities
  • Based on the Process Product Resources (PPR) model, the manufacturing applications are integrated with Digital Process for Manufacturing (DPM).

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all products. It also describes the general layout and the interoperability between workbenches.

You may also like to read the prerequisite guide NC Manufacturing Infrastructure User's Guide, which explains how to use common Machining functionalities.

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step user tasks, which illustrate product functionalities.

The Reference Information section provides useful complementary information.

The Interface Description section, which describes the commands that are specific to Prismatic Machining, and the Techniques section, which provides useful information about recommended work methods, will also certainly prove useful.