1.       Contact Tol.

Element contact calculation tolerance. The default is 1.

2.       No. of Strokes

This option enables the user to specify number of strokes. The default is 1.

3.       Show Aux.

This option enables the user to set type for the desired auxiliary data: pressure or sliding velocity.

4.       Show His.

Display tool wear history curves by the following three types: Wear Result, Wear Coefficient, Hardness.

5.       View Imported Result

Select this option, as shown in Figure 8.5.4(a). The user should first select tool in the result and click Import Tool Wear to import the result to post-processor. Then the result will be automatically displayed on the selected tool. Once the imported wear result is displayed, a dialog box as illustrated in Figure 8.5.4(b) appears. See Figure 8.5.5.

         

a)                                b)

Figure 8.5.4  Tool wear control

6.       View Active Steps Result

The user can select all the Frames to be displayed from the Frame list to show the wear result of the selected step, as shown in Figure 8.5.6.

7.       Element Result

Show tool wear result by element.

Figure 8.5.5  Wear Result of all steps

Figure 8.5.6  Wear Result of the current step