How would you copy a part? | |
Hi,
In answer to your question (How would you copy a part)
Basically I would measure the plate and all the apertures on the plate on our CMM, getting all the positions of the apertures as points from a known datum. then I would draw in all these points on the cad system and then literally join up the dots. Then its just a case of making a program from the resulting DXF or DWG file. It might seem a long way to do it, but we regularly do this when a customer needs a new die or something else making and we did not make the original, and we have no information about it.
Mark... |