Overview

Welcome to the Prismatic Machining User's Guide. This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the Prismatic Machining Version 5 product. This overview provides the following information: Prismatic Machining in a Nutshell Before Reading this Guide Getting the Most Out of this Guide Accessing Sample Documents Conventions Used in this Guide.
Prismatic Machining in a Nutshell
Prismatic Machining enables you to define and manage NC programs dedicated to machining parts designed in 3D wireframe or solids geometry using 2.5 axis machining techniques. It offers an easy-to-use and easy-to-learn graphic interface that makes it suitable for shop floor-oriented use. Moreover, its leading edge technologies together with a tight integration with Version 5 design methodologies and DELMIA's digital manufacturing environment, fully satisfy the requirements of office programming. Prismatic Machining is a unique solution that reconciliates office and shop floor activities. It is integrated to a Post Processor Access execution engine, allowing the product to cover the whole manufacturing process from tool trajectory (APT source) to NC code. This product is particularly adapted for tooling and simple machined parts, and is also an ideal complement to other manufacturing applications. Prismatic Machining offers the following main functions: 2.5 axis milling and drilling capabilities Management of tools and tool catalogs Flexible management of the manufacturing program with intuitive and easy-to-learn user interface based on graphic dialog boxes Tight interaction between tool path definition, verification and generation Seamless NC data generation thanks to an integrated Post Processor Access solution Automatic shop floor documentation in HTML format High associative level of the manufacturing program ensures productive design change management thanks to the integration with Version 5 modeling capabilities Based on the Process Product Resources (PPR) model, the manufacturing applications are integrated with Digital Process for Manufacturing (DPM).
Before Reading this Guide
Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 5 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 5 products. It also describes the general layout of V5 and the interoperability between workbenches. You may also like to read the following complementary product guides, for which the appropriate license is required: NC Manufacturing Infrastructure User's Guide: explains how to use common Machining functionalities Prismatic Machining Preparation Assistant User's Guide: describes Machinable Features recognition and associated functionalities for preparing a Design Part for Prismatic Machining.
Getting the Most Out of this Guide
To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step Getting Started tutorial. This tutorial will show you how to produce an NC program for 2.5-axis machining. Once you have finished, you should move on to the User Tasks section, which gives more complete information about the product's functionalities. The Reference section provides useful complementary information. The Workbench Description section, which describes the commands that are specific to Prismatic Machining, and the Customizing section, which explains how to customize settings, and the Methodology section, which provides useful information about recommended work methods, will also certainly prove useful.
Accessing Sample Documents
To perform the scenarios, you will be using sample documents contained in the `doc/online/pmgug_C2/samples` or `doc/online/pmgug_D2/samples` folder. For more information about this, refer to Accessing Sample Documents in the Infrastructure User's Guide.