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2.6.5.  Search for unmachined parts

[Note] Note

The Search for unmachined parts is hidden by default. Information on UI design can be found under Section 2.2.1.6, “Configuring PARTsolutions interface menu and toolbar ” in PARTsolutions / PARTcommunity4Enterprise - Administration Manual. After restart of PARTdataManager and CAD system the function Search for unmachined parts will be displayed in the PARTsolutions toolbar.

Description of functions

The Search for unmachined parts detects fitting unmachined parts for the production of finished parts or finished parts which can be produced from a certain unmachined part.

Example:

An engineer is looking for a special flange. Then he wants to search for already existing unmachined parts, from which the flange can be produced, in order to avoid the redundant creation of a new unmachined part (material master). This process is very time consuming, because the parts have to be overlaid in the CAD one after another

With PARTsolutions Search for unmachined parts this can be solved much quicker.

The search detects, whether a part is completely contained in another part: The finished part has to be smaller than the unmachined part, so that it can be produced by removing wasted material. As soon as the extensions of the finished part exceed the ones of the unmachined part only at a certain point, it cannot be used at all or at least badly.

The search calculates the volume of the material to remove (waste). The less material to remove, the higher the ranking in the result list, because this criterion is determining for the manufacturing costs.

  1. In the PARTsolutions menu, click on the command Search for unmachined parts.

    Example: Call of "Search for unmachined parts" from Inventor

    Example: Call of "Search for unmachined parts" from Inventor

    -> The seamless panel opens.

  2. In the seamless panel, click on the command Search for unmachined parts.

    -> The settings dialog opens.

  3. Adjust the settings and click on Commit and afterwards Start search or Commit and Search.

Further information on the "Search for unmachined parts" is found under Section 3.1.6.4.8, “ Search for unmachined parts ” and information on the other search methods, which can possibly be used in combination, is found under Section 3.1.6.4, “ Search methods ”.