TOOL ELECTRODE PARAMETRIC DESIGNING FOR ELECTRIC TREATMENT USING iLogic MODULE
The paper reports the electric methods as a means for manufacturing complex parts. The tool electrode design process from the point of view of the geometry development of an operation profile and its manufacturing with the use of additive technologies is offered. As a TE design basis are used modern CADs for the automation of the process of obtaining a parametric tool shape by the example of the design and production of the combined tool electrode for methods of electric treatment. As a means of designing there was chosen Autodesk Inventor Professional with the embedded iLogic module being a tool for the development of digital prototypes on the basis of logical rules according to which one implies a user's specified sequence of actions on the development of a product solid model carried out automatically by Inventor at input conditions specified adequately (took place a model opening, its storage, changes of its parameters or a state and so on). A tool electrode digital model obtained as a result of designing is a basic (prototype) one for manufacturing a non-conductive part of the combined tool electrode (TE) by means of 3D printing. Further, there is carried out an application of a conductive layer upon operation surfaces of TE, and the area creation for current contact jaws and profile finishing.