Setup Operations

aPriori models the procedure of orienting, aligning, and clamping a part as an operation named Setup, which is performed on the Component GCD. If a part requires multiple setups, it will have multiple child setup operations, Setup, Setup:1, Setup:2, and so forth. In the Manufacturing Process pane, you can expand a setup operation to see the operations that are performed while the part is in the orientation established by the setup.

See Setup Operation Times and Costs for more information on how aPriori determines setup costs.

The cost model relies on a node occurrence generator Java plugin (specified by the node attribute generatorName) to group operations by setup. See Working with Zero-or-More Nodes in the Cost Model Workbench Guide for more information.