Microjoints
Auto placement of Microjoints/Nanojoints
When the twinline tooling strategy is TIO (Twinline-Island-Outer), Flux will apply microjoints/nanojoints. There are three strategies by which Flux will determine the microjoint locations.
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One Piece: In this strategy, Flux will add microjoints such that the whole block, including any islands, remains attached to the sheet as a single piece.
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One Free Piece: Here, there are no microjoints on the outer contour. They are added only to the islands and twinline edges. So the tooling holds up the twinline group as a single piece but the group itself is free, ie., it is not bound to the sheet skeleton.
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Standard finishing rules: Standard finishing rules are applied to islands. In this case tipping and stability analysis will be done for islands, and if selected the finishing rules will add microjoints will be added, but if they prescribe scrap-tooling, scrap-tooling will be applied (and the entire island will be broken down).
Nanojoints vs Microjoints in a TwinLine situation
On twin-lined edges, only nanojoints (or piercing on contour) are possible. On the edges of an island or outer boundary, all types of joints (hard, soft, or nano) are possible. When applying the One Piece strategy, Flux will try to minimize the number of joints on the twin-lined edge with the assumption that hard/soft joints (with an approach path) are preferred over nanojoints (where piercing is done on the contour). Nanojoints are shown with tiny yellow dots.
Manual microjoints for TwinLine groups
Apart from adding these microjoints automatically, the software allows for manually adding/removing microjoints anywhere on a twin-line tool by a manual click.