Can you do automatic common punching?
Yes we can! AxiomVE has the ability to common punch same-side, equal-length, or completely included sides of parts automatically. You can set VE to common punch the way you want it to globally for all parts or on a part-by-part basis.
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OptiPunch™ Features & Benefits
Turret Punch automatic nesting software features and how they work for you
General Benefits
OptiPunch Turret Punch Combination Features
- Automatic Kerf Compensation
- Automatic Feed Rates
- Automatic Lead-ins/outs
- Automatic Common Cutting
- Automatic Manufacturing Attributes Reading
- FMS Turret Punch Tooling and Nesting
- Automatic Tool Change Minimization
- Tool Library Flexibility
- Forming Hit Avoidance
- Automatic Freed Part Avoidance
- Tool Changer Output
- Tool Characteric Settings
- Tool Priorities
- Tool Die Clearance Settings
- Tool-Dependent Parameters
- Special Tool Classifications
- Tool Station Priorities Per Tool
- Tooling Dead Zones
- Reusable Tool Changer Configurations
- Tool Changer Editing
- "Inactive" Tool Station Settings
- Tooling Configuration per Order Due Dates
- Batch Nesting per Tooling or Off-Loading
- Tool Hit Count Settings
- Preferred Tool Set
- Automatic Part-Specific Tooling
- Scallop Control
- Single Hit Punching
- Automatic Tooling Error Alert
- Automatic Tool Rotation
- Automatic Radius Tool Application
- Automatic Tooling & Grain Contraint Recognition
- Automatic Tool Assignment Just Prior to Nesting
- Interactive Tooling Available
Benefits
Cuts Run or Cycle Time
Reduces Material Use
Common Edge Punching
Automatic common edge punching reduces duty cycle time and reduces material use. Save hours programming. Learn more.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Cuts Material Waste
Nesting Beneath the Clamps
Nesting Beneath the Clamps (NBC) is a fully automatic feature in Optimation® that allows nesting in the clamp dead-zone area on a sheet. Learn more.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Automatic Tabbing
Calculates tabbing tool placement automatically.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Automatic Irregular Hole Punching
Automatically punches out irregular shaped holes and notches.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Automatic Die Clearance Control
Recognizes die clearance limitations as defined by the user per material type.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Cuts Run or Cycle Time
Automatic Cluster Punch Calculations
Automatically matches cluster punches to geometry.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Automatic Single Part Programming
Can be configured in a "blank-to-size" single part program mode for handling non-nest type parts (calculates clamp positions automatically).
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Automatic Tab & Micro-Joints
Calculates micro-tab and micro-joint placement based upon tool path size if applicable.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Just In Time Nesting
Enables user to respond to changes in demand within the cycle time of one machine tool virtually on the fly to accommodate JIT (Just-In-Time) production systems.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Ensures Cut Accuracy, Ensures Part Quality
Automatic Kerf Compensation
Determines kerf side and direction automatically.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Ensures Part Quality
Automatic Feed Rates
Automatically sets feed rates and grain direction based on geometry.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Ensures Part Quality
Automatic Lead-ins/outs
Automatically creates lead-in/lead-out.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Cuts Run or Cycle Time, Cuts Material Waste
Automatic Common Cutting
Provides a full-featured Common Cutting approach that allows the user to specify which parts can be common edge cut when a part is libraried.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Automatic Manufacturing Attributes Reading
Reads and applies key manufacturing information marks for bend lines, weld lines, grain direction, part numbers, order numbers, or anything you need with Geometric Marking and Text Etching.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Cuts Run or Cycle Time
FMS Turret Punch Tooling and Nesting
The software can accommodate an FMS turret punch configuration by recognizing the machine-tool's unique features (auto-loader, part and skeleton unloaders, and bin-and pallet offloading).
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Cuts Run or Cycle Time
Automatic Tool Change Minimization
The software creates nests which automatically minimize tool changes and punch path.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Tool Library Flexibility
The user can create common or machine tool-specific tool libraries.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Ensures Part Quality
Forming Hit Avoidance
The software sequences tools within forming tool interference zones.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Cuts Run or Cycle Time
Automatic Freed Part Avoidance
The software has the ability to recognize a hit that frees scrap and parts.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Cuts Run or Cycle Time
Tool Changer Output
The software has the ability to output tool changer information in NC code.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Tool Characteric Settings
The user can identify a tool by multiple classes or type characteristics.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Ensures Part Quality
Tool Priorities
The user can set tool priorities.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Tool Die Clearance Settings
Each tool can be assigned any die clearance needed.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Ensures Part Quality
Tool-Dependent Parameters
The user can choose from a large selection of additional tool dependent parameters.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Special Tool Classifications
The software recognizes special tool classifications such as flat, forming, corner, radius, tabbing, single-hit only, and louver.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Tool Station Priorities Per Tool
The user can identify primary and alternate tool stations for each tool.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Tooling Dead Zones
The user can establish "dead zones" per station.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Reusable Tool Changer Configurations
The user can save and restore multiple tool changer configuration patterns.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Tool Changer Editing
The user has the ability to edit the tool changer from the machine tool parameters.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
"Inactive" Tool Station Settings
The user has the ability to define inactive stations adjacent to special tools in the turret.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Tooling Configuration per Order Due Dates
Can change tool management/configuration during nesting based on dates associated with active orders.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Cuts Run or Cycle Time
Batch Nesting per Tooling or Off-Loading
Can operate in a production run mode for optimizing "batch" runs relative to one tool setup or parts off-load restrictions
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Ensures Part Quality
Tool Hit Count Settings
The software tracks the hit count per tool for user maintenance.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Cuts Run or Cycle Time, Cuts Material Waste
Preferred Tool Set
Automatically selects preferred tool set.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Automatic Part-Specific Tooling
Provides specific part tooling based on tool types of radius, tabbing, cluster, slitter, and single hit.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Ensures Part Quality
Scallop Control
Automatic part tooling using material dependent scallop control.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Ensures Part Quality, Ensures Cut Accuracy
Single Hit Punching
Matches tool tolerances to individual over and undersize single hits.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Ensures Cut Accuracy
Automatic Tooling Error Alert
Automatically warns the user of geometric areas with no applicable tooling.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Automatic Tool Rotation
Applies rotational tooling such as rectangular or square shapes to linear and arc type geometry.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Cuts Run or Cycle Time, Ensures Part Quality
Automatic Radius Tool Application
Utilizes corner radius tools automatically if desired.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time
Automatic Tooling & Grain Contraint Recognition
Automatically recognizes whether tooled part should be grain constrained due to tooling limitations per machine.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Cuts Run or Cycle Time
Automatic Tool Assignment Just Prior to Nesting
Automatically assigns tools without assigning specific stations until time of nest creation for maximum flexibility.
Benefits
Cuts Programming Time, Ensures Part Quality
Interactive Tooling Available
Provides a full-featured set of tools for interaction if desired.
Using your part design files, quantities, due dates and our software, we'll put the Optimation® to the test in a custom benchmark. You'll know exactly what you could be saving. Contact us now.