In most such projects, the Sysiphus work begins right away with acquisition of the required data. If tool and component data are not available electronically, they must be entered by hand. This often takes up to a full hour per tool. But things were different at KRONES, which was aided by one of TDM's high-performance software tools, the TDM Data and Graphics Generator. In no time at all, it had put KRONES' tool master into the database. As Maximilian Kraxner, Director of CAM Technologies at KRONES AG in Neutraubling, says with enthusiasm, "The TDM Data and Graphics Generator enabled us to file more than 2450 components in our database in only 6 weeks!"
It was only a short time before joint access to tool information in the central TDM database (including 3D-data) opened up for the company's NC Programming and Process Planning Areas. "Electronic integration of tooling data from the manufacturer catalogues saved us a good 70 % of the time normally required for input. There is no doubt that the TDM Data and Graphics Generator was the key," says Maximilian Kraxner. "The reasons are clear: the Generator is fast and easy to operate, it delivers correct data, and best of all it provides 3D-graphic images in different formats."
The 3D graphics can also be created directly in NX
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