Dimples
Dimpling is the stretching of a relatively small, shallow indentation into sheet metal. In aircraft/aerospace industries, the stretching of metal into a conical flange for a countersunk head rivet. Dimpling here is done on a CNC turret punch press. Dimples are usually round.
User Input
1. Enter the "# Occurrences" on the part.
"Time per Occurrence" is calculated by the program based on the machine specifications for punch time and rapid traverse.
2. Enter the total distance from the first punched shape to the last punched shape.
This is the total distance the machine will travel for this type of shape.
3. The final "Time per Piece" is the total time it takes to punch this shape plus machine rapid traverse time in the part.
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