As the first Sino-foreign joint venture in the printing machinery industry in mainland China, our company mainly produces and sells printing and packaging equipment. In order to improve the precision, appearance and development speed of new products, and to ensure the company's leading position in the domestic market, the company is the first to introduce. Computer workstation Pro/E CAD/CAM system. Since the end of 1996, Pro/E software has been widely used in the company's main product line, greatly improving the speed of work and quality of work, and achieved certain results. The following is our application experience in the past few years, I hope to be available for your reference.

Selection

The basic principles of our selection:

Software system functions must meet the company's design and manufacturing needs.

Software technology must conform to future CAD/CAM and CIMS technology trends.

Solid modeling and surface design capabilities with complex parts.

With product assembly capabilities and assembly inspection capabilities.

Can generate engineering drawings that meet national standards.

Can convert CAD system resources of imported products.

Variant design is fast.

The three-coordinate measuring machine can be reverse engineered.

Software companies must have good operating conditions and market share.

Software must be highly integrated with design analysis processing and management systems and ensure data is unique.

With good after-sales service, application engineers can master software functions.

During the selection process, PTC's sales staff and engineers visited our company several times to demonstrate and explain, let our company's leaders and engineers know the role of Pro/E, enhance the determination to implement the CAD plan, and establish the use of CAD. confidence. When testing Pro/E functions, PTC engineers are responsible for completing the project overnight and explaining it in the demonstration to answer questions on the spot. Their rigorous work attitude and good professionalism have made us confident in the technical training and support after the introduction. It is these reasons that prompted us to use Pro/E software as our company's software for implementing CAD design.

At the end of 1996, the basic configuration of our CAD/CAM system was in place. After testing, it was initially scaled.

The system is equipped with 3 sets of SGI workstations, 2 sets of NT, 2 plotters and tape drives, and can read and write external devices such as optical discs. All equipment consists of two systems, the CAD system and the CAM system. Each system is connected by a network, which enables file transfer and sharing of peripherals. Apply a license for the appropriate number of Pro/E software to ensure the management and operation of the system.

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