Create tool setup sheets

A tool engineer creates tool setup sheets to communicate to the tool room personnel what components to assemble and how to set up the tool assemblies required for each manufacturing job. Tool engineers create setup sheets for a number of different purposes:

• To define the shape and properties of tool assemblies that are required for specific manufacturing jobs.

• To describe the shape and properties of tool components that make up such assemblies.

• To convey the shape of a tool through one or more parametric drawings. The tool properties provide the parameter values for such drawings.

• To list the tool components required to create the tool assembly for a manufacturing job.

Results

You can use several different procedures to create tool setup sheets.

Create tool setup sheets with Resource Manager on Active Workspace

You can create tool setup sheets in Resource Manager

Procedure

1. Select the root node of an assembly resource.

2. Click Create setup sheets .

3. Click OK.

Create tool setup sheets with NX Tool Assembly Part File

You can create tool setup sheets in the NX Tool Assembly Part File dialog box.

Procedure

1. Select a tool assembly part file.

2. On the Resource Manager toolbar, click Create/update NX tool assembly part file .

3. Select the Create Setup Sheets check box.

4. Click OK.

Create tool setup sheets in Classification Table view

You can create tool setup sheets in the Classification Table view.

Procedure

1. In the Classification Table view, select the rows containing the tools that you will create tool setup sheets for.

2. Click Create setup sheets .

3. Click Yes in the Create Setup Sheets dialog box.

Tool setup sheet files

The setup sheets function creates a PDF file, NX drawing file, and a CMG file.

Note

• The create setup sheets function uses the graphics builder. If the graphics builder is not yet running, you may experience a short delay while the graphics builder starts in the background before the function is complete.

• The tool attribute values are always transferred in the ICO's unit.

If the tool assembly is an inch assembly, the inch values are entered in the setup sheet.

If the tool assembly is a metric assembly, the metric values are entered in the setup sheet.