I am trying the Costing tool with one of our parts, which is a round part with some holes drilled and tapped in the side.
Here's a picture of the part.
This picture shows the Feature Manager, complete with Hole Wizard tapped holes.
This picture shows the Cost Manager, with only turned features recognized.
What can I do to add a drilling operation to drill and tap the holes?
Charlie
Hi Charles,
I will have one of the developers take a look at your initial question and get back to you on this issue, thanks for pointing this out. You also mention that you are using the standard template but the Costing Manager shows an M4 being applied? If you do not have metric taps available in the english standard template this should not happen, could you send a screen shot?
Also, I know tapered holes are not something we specifically address as of now, but with custom operations you can simulate the addition of a tapping operation by applying a price to the face, but this is a work around for now. We are trying to address this more specifically in the future. To add a custom operation you must select the custom operation button in the top left of the costing manager:
Once you are there, you can choose from a list of custom operations available in the template or select "Add New" from the dropdown. If you select "Add New", you can enter a new operation to add, apply a setup cost, and select if you want to apply it per edge length, face area, etc. In this case you would probably be best to select per face area and then select which faces you want to apply the cost to and assign a cost per area. Please let me know if this makes sense, I will try to post my tutorial from SWW a bit later today to offer more assistance.
Thanks,
-Blake