I have a part that is programmed that gets both plating of nickel of .001 Min, and some paint and primer about .004 with the nickel underneath.
The best way I could think of for accounting for plating, is programming off of the CAD, and once done, offsetting my alignments by however much the surfaces are getting for plating, and when the prompt comes up to orientate everything to the new alignment, saying NO, as to not change the basics, just where the origin lies.
I'm doing this but assigning VARs NICKEL and PAINT with their build-up, and hoping to add a prompt that asks if the part is plated, and if it is, to make those VARs 0.000, which should in turn, not offset the alignments, this only helps with True Position and Form and location PoS, I'm still needing to manually put these vars into most dimensioning, but when set to 0.000, should just have the final post-plate dimensions.
If it helps, I'm running PC-DMIS 2016.
Does anyone else have any good ideas or thoughts on how to improve on something like this? Like I said, having it in 1 program is my end goal and easy to implement.
