[step-manufacturing] Minutes of fourth conference call

[Martin Hardwick]

Attendees
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Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools
David Loffredo, STEP Tools
Leon Xu, Boeing
Larry Maggiano, Mitutoyo
Chris Pfeifer, CCAT
Sid Venkatesh, Boeing


Apologies for Absence
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Alain Brail, AlBavis
Aydin Nassehi, University of Bath
Magnus Lundgren, KTH
Bob Ericksson, Pratt & Whitney
Mikael Hedlind, KTH
David Odendahl, Boeing
Bengt Olsson, Sandvik
Ian Stroud, EPFL
Fred Proctor, NIST

We reviewed the draft agenda for the Bath meeting. No changes were suggested.

ftp://ftp.steptools.com/private/Bath/Draft_T24_Bath_Agenda.pdf

We reviewed the list of U.Bath machine tools but postponed deciding 
what machines to use for each part until the next call.

We discussed feed-speed editing for the Moldy part. STEP Tools gave a 
brief demonstration of a new user interface. Others that want to try 
the demonstration can download the code. The new functionality is in 
Setup/Custom Feed Speed. The functionality is still in development. 
There is limited ability to change the feed values and no ability to 
change the speed values yet. There is fairly extensive functionality 
for finding the workingsteps that use a feed/speed technology and vice versa.

http://www.steptools.com/products/stepncmachine/download/

In the discussion Boeing and CCAT both emphasized the desirability of 
being able to change the feed/speed within the context of a single 
toolpath, a whole workingstep, every workingstep machined by a tool, 
or the whole project.

The discussion of the Boxy part was limited because it is vacation 
season in Northern Europe. STEP Tools is implementing functionality 
to add setups to a program and to move workingsteps between setups. 
The latest Explorer contains a new machine tool model for a Trunnion 
that gives preference to rotating the bed in the negative direction.

The next conference call will be at the regular times on Wednesday July 29.

Action items
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1.   STEP Tools to add functionality to the Explorer to make a Boxy 
part with two setup's.
2.   STEP Tools to continue developing the feed-speed editor.
3.   Team to review the Bath agenda so that invitations can be sent 
after the next telcon.