Use the Process Plan dialog to move features between Setups, remove features or Setups from the manufacturing plan, or add features to the plan. The order of operations in the Process Plan dialog is only the initial manufacturing order. Settings in the Default Operation attributes and the Ordering dialogs can override this order.
To display the Process Plan dialog, select Manufacturing > Process Plan from the menu.
The left and middle boxes show the features contained in the Setups whose name is listed above the box. If you have only one Setup in your part, both of these boxes display the operations of your single stage. The Process Plan list contains the names of all Setups in your process plan.
Process Plan — This displays a list of Setups in the model.
Setup — This lists of all the Setups in the part. Select a Setup from the list and the features contained in the Setup are displayed in the Feature list.
Feature — This lists the features for each Setup.
Delete item
— Click this button to delete the selected Setup in the
Process Plan list or Feature in the
Feature list.
Move item to another setup (right)
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moves the selected manufacturing operation(s) from the left Setup to the right Setup. For example, if your part has a
top and
roughbot Setup. With the
roughbot Setup selected in the left Setup list (the first stage of the manufacturing process), the operations assigned to this Setup are displayed in the left field. If you select the
top Setup in the right Setup list, the operations for this setup are displayed in the middle field. If you select an operation in the
roughbot Setup and then click
Move item to another setup (right)
, the operation is assigned to the
top Setup, and is displayed in the middle field.
Move item to another setup (left)
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moves the selected manufacturing operation(s) from the right Setup to the left Setup.
Move item up
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moves the selected feature or Setup up in the list by one place.
Move item down
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moves the selected feature or Setup down in the list by one place.