I don't know how many of you work with aluminium profiles but the raw material definition is always a bit difficult. If you define the raw part as a block the system will always remove too much material that is not available at all. So you have to make a solid and define it as raw material. If it is a series and you always make the same part then you make the effort and finish. But if you have to mill something different from the same material every time, it's a bit more time-consuming. Here is a picture of one of the profiles we work on. The profile is always the same, but the length and the milling changes constantly. It would be cool if you select the solid as a model in the setup and then take the same solid in the raw part. Now you have a checkbox with the option "Extend silhouette". The user chooses in which direction the silhouette should be extended X, Y or Z. It depends on how the part lies. That means the system looks so at the part if you have selected the right axis: Now you have 2 fields with which you can extend the silhouette at the front and at the back because often you saw a bit longer. If there is 0 in these fields, only a profile with the length of the model will be created. The same applies of course to standard L-profiles, U-profiles, square tubes, etc. You'd save yourself the trouble of creating a blank profile every time.
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