With aPriori Manufacturing Cost Models, you can specify simultaneous operations for turned parts manufactured on a 4-axis or 6-axis lathe. You can configure Custom Digital Factories to contain operations assignment logic with includes support for automatic determination of simultaneous operations.
To specify simultaneous operations
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Select a routing that contains a 4-axis or 6-axis lathe process.
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In the Manufacturing Process pane, expand the tree to display the lathe process node and the operations and associated GCDs under that node. Under the lathe process node, you can see a node called Simultaneous Group.
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You can drag-and-drop operations on specific GCDs into the Simultaneous Group node, to indicate they should be performed simultaneously:
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First click on the GCD row; it will be highlighted in blue.
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Next, click on the same GCD row and hold down the mouse key, drag it over to the Simultaneous Group node, and release the mouse key.
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The operation and GCD nodes are moved under the Simultaneous Group node.
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Select a routing that contains a 4-axis or 6-axis lathe process.
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Remove an operation from the simultaneous Group node
Use the same technique described in a previous step to drag and drop the GCD back to the 4-axis or 6-axis lathe process node. The operation/GCD is moved back to its original location and no longer appear under the Simultaneous Group node.