Horizontally structured manufacturing process modeling for:alternate operations, large parts and charted parts

摘要

Disclosed is a method and a part manufactured thereby, of horizontally structured CAD/CAM manufacturing for alternate operations, comprising: selecting a blank for machining an actual part; establishing a coordinate system (6); creating a master process model (20), and generating machining instructions to create an actual part by machining a manufacturing feature (12a - 12j) into the blank. Also included in the method is: generating an alternate master process model (30) as an extracted 3-D model from the master process model (20); virtual machining of the 3-D model; and generating machining instructions to create the actual part. The method also includes: generating a junior master process model (20b), (20c) comprising: a 3-D model generated from the master process model (20); virtual machining of the 3-D model; and finally, generating machining instructions to create the actual part. The method further includes generating a subsequent master process model (20d) comprising; another virtual blank (10); a copy of the manufacturing features (12a - 12j) of the master process model (20); virtual machining of the other virtual blank (10) with a manufacturing feature (12a - 12j) uncommon to the master process model (20); and generating machining instructions to create the actual part by machining the blank. Also disclosed is a storage medium encoded with a machine-readable computer program code and a computer data signal for horizontally structured CAD/CAM manufacturing. The storage medium including instructions for causing a computer to implement; and the computer data signal comprising code configured to cause a processor to implement; the method of horizontally structured CAD/CAM modeling and manufacturing for alternate operations, large parts, and charted parts.