Export Peddimat in Raptor

Hi, I'm Duane Bates, the pre-installation and training department manager at Peddinghaus. The purpose of this video is to describe the Peddimat export function within Raptor.

With files showing here in your pending part window you can either right click on the header, in this case Tekla, and export files, or you can right click on a single part and export that part. Today, we're going to use the entire list and right click on the header. Go to export all parts > Peddimat2D. This new window opens up. We'll come back to this window after we describe the different tabs we have.

The first tab we have is the feature filter. You'll notice there are other profile tabs for angles, beams, channels, plates and tubes. These tabs are all identical with the exception of getting different choices based upon the profile itself. Since a plate only has a web and an underside you only see the two choices. On the other profiles you have the additional surfaces that show up. You can choose to export a particular profile or not. If you have many files in your list on the left side and you choose not to export angles, turn off export and those files will not be exported. You can choose which features to export on each particular type of profile. If you don't want scribes or copes you can turn them off by unchecking the box. You can export scribes as character marks. If there is a piece mark on the part you can choose to export it. Put it in your character set and tell it which surfaces you want to export the text scribes. You can also include and mark the part information. If you want to force the holes to be referenced from the beginning or left end of the part check this box. If you want to export miter information check this box. If you want to correct miters for maximum angle check the box and put the degree you want to stop those miters. You can also correct bevels for a maximum angle. This would be a bevel on a flange or something along those lines like a weld prep on a flange of a beam. Many copers are only capable of going to 45 degrees. This would limit the torch to only go to 45. It would still allow the cope to be completed. 

Go through and set the different profile tabs to be the way you want them to be. Then go to the optimization tab. If you happen to be exporting files for an ABC-1250 Coper, or an ABCM-1250 Coper, you may want to combine identical copes on the flanges. If there are flange thins or block copes on the flanges that are identical, you could choose to do this. The torches at the top and bottom flanges would burn at the same time. You can order the copes as "always" or "never". "Never" will export it as if it was importing into Raptor. There's also "order parts with non manual copes". If files and copes were imported and you add additional manual copes to it, it would only order the ones that were imported. It would leave the manual copes alone. If you do that you have additional choices. Order parts with mixed design would be some that were imported and some that had been modified or changed to manual. You can also treat macro copes as manual copes. You have many choices here. In most cases you are going to choose "always". For most structural fabricators "always" will be just fine. Only if you are doing quite elaborate things that have to be processed in a certain way would you want to change this.

Put a cope reference point X axis offset in this box. If you want to order the copes in reverse you can tell it to order it in reverse. The distance the torch tip on the flanges is away from the flange itself needs to be put here. For bevel angles, we need to know the distance the torch tip is away from the surface at a zero degree cut. This way we can calculate the angles and positions appropriately. Last thing we have is extending the flange cuts. When we're making a flange cut we always want to extend it past the edge. This is so we make sure the flange gets cut off completely. Melt tolerance of the shape the surface is not always what it is theoretically supposed to be. We always want to extend the cut past to make sure we get that additional bit cut off. Put in how far you want to extend it past the edge. You can extend past an upper and lower edge. That's why we have upper and lower possibilities.

For the folders, here is where we put the Peddimat files. You can browse and select your location. It will show it right here. You can see I'm putting it in a Peddimat file folder on my C drive. My cope files also are going into a copes folder in that same location. I can choose to create individual assembly folders. I can also allow long length cope files. If you are using an ABCM-1250 coper you can do this. ABC-1000 cannot use long length cope files. The machine was limited to a 12" stroke. You would not want to have that checked if you're on the older 1000 machine. ABC-1250 can check this. It will burn copes that are longer than 12". If you want to export files into individual shape directories select this and browse to find the directory you want. You can embed them in a project folder. Exporting will see what the project is on the part files, create it and embed the files inside that particular project. 

The last tab is the tools tab. The tools tab only matters on drills. It does not matter on any punches or any burning machines. The number of tools needs to match the number of tools that your particular machine has. If in Peddimat it only lists 3 tools per surface, you need to choose 3. If it lists 9 or 6, you need to select that number of tools. The value you have in these cells should match the values that are in the Peddimat tools window. This is the standard tools window in Peddimat. Whatever these values are is exactly what we should see in these values as well. Match those up and Raptor will export and associate the hole diameters with the proper tool number based on your standard tools in Peddimat. You can tell it to only export the specified number of tools. You have a lot of variations and capabilities to match the Raptor files to what they need to be in Peddimat. 

Once you have all of these selected, and have everything set the way you want it set, go back to the general tab. Hit "go". You can see it exported all four parts. Close the window and it's completed.  

For any other service related questions please contact Peddinghaus support at 1-815-937-3800 and press 2 for technical assistance. Visit our website at www.peddinghaus.com for more how-to videos and additional machine information.