Punch Application Features

Master Tool Library, Tool Sets and Tool Lists MASTER TOOL LIBRARY ( 1 to 99,000 tools ) A master tool library for each unique punch machine (Amada, Koike, Trumpf, Whitney, etc.) is setup by the user “one time”, and should include all tools for available for the machine. The master tool library contains input fields for entering the tool description and other pertinent information about each tool such as; Shape, Size, Nibble percentage, Safety zone, Type, Tool Set, Station. TOOL SET ( a sub set of the master tool library such as the red tools in the picture below) Within the master library the user has the option to identify a tool as being part of a “group” of tools referred to as a “Tool Set” ( ex. Tool Set 1, 2, 3, etc. ). A tool set might be tools kept in the turret, and or, tools required for a job. TOOL LISTS ( tools needed to tool a job, red and blue tools in the picture below ) A tool list is typically 1 to 40 tools necessary to tool a job. The tools in the master tool library are copied into the “Tool List” by the Punch Automatic Tooling logic. The user does NOT identify and or copy the tools from the master library, the entire process of selecting the tools and copying them into the Tool List is done automatically. TOOLING A JOB The user enters the name of the Tool List (typically the job name). After creating the nest the tooling logic pulls tools from the master tool library copying them into the Tool List automatically. The tooling logic compares the part geometry in the nest to the tools in the master library and the “Tool List”, and adds missing tools to the “Tool List” as required. When no exact tool can be located in the master library the software prompt the user displaying tooling solutions. Tooling solutions include undersize, oversize, hit with combinations of rounds and rectangles.