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1. A method for designing a sheet-metal-forming process in which a sheet-metal part is formed, and for assisting a user in managing an assignment from processing units to process operations, the method performed by a processor of a computing system, the processor programmed to determine,
from a model of the geometry of the sheet-metal part, a visual representation of the sheet-metal part, and to display this visual representation on a display device operatively coupled to the processor; the processor programmed to maintain a computer based representation of process operations and processing units, wherein a process operation represents manufacturing steps effected on the part by one stroke of a forming press in a single station press or in one station of a multiple station press and wherein a processing unit represents one or more manufacturing steps that are assigned to one feature of the part and that are carried out in the same process operation; the method comprising the steps of:
determining, by the processor, based on user input, one or more of the features as selected features;computing, by the processor, feature markers indicating the location of the selected features on the sheet-metal part;displaying, by the processor the feature markers on the display device;computing, by the processor, one or more visual labels, a label being a visual representation of processing units that are assigned to the selected features, each label being visually assigned to the feature marker of the selected feature to which the label is assigned, creating an assignment; anddisplaying, by the processor, on the display device the one or more visual labels. |
