Creating Stripping Tools

Task

This exercise takes up from the result “Creating Cutting Die”. We will create the stripping tools for the cutting die we
created earlier: male and female dies, front stripper. These are used to dislodge the waste from the cut sheet.

Stripping dies remove the waste material from the cut product during the cutting procedure.
Stripping does consist of male stripper, stripping board/female stripping board and stripping pins.

Male stripping die

– Waste chips are pinned to prevent them from being scattered around
Some die makers leave 20 mm of wood in front of the first tool, others don’t. You can account for this with a
wooden strip in the frame

– Stripping board
The contours in the stripping board are smaller that the waste chips; the chips are thus stripped off on the
stripping board underside when the board rises

– Stripping pins
Are used when the male stripper fails to properly push through during stripping (because of too complex
shape or wear).
Male stripping die

Female stripping die

Front stripper
Exercise description

Setting contours

We start by setting the contours that will mark the useful area from the waste.

1. Go back to the layout drawing.

2. On the Diemaking toolbar, click Create Die Contours

The Stripping Contour Options dialog box appears.

2. Accept the defaults and click OK.

The first contour is created automatically, applied to the lower front stripper.
3. Now we shall proceed with the creation of contours for the rest of the 1ups. To make the contour creation easy and

uniform, ensure that the Repeat Changes button — — is pressed in.

4. Now click any of the 1ups. The contours are created automatically in all identical 1ups.

The contours are set.

Generation of the stripping dies

Now we shall create the male and female stripping dies, as well as the front stripper. These will be visualized in
separate drawings.

1. On the Diemaking toolbar, click the Generate Stripping Dies button

The Stripping Dies Generation Options dialog box appears.

2. Click OK.

Three new drawings are added to the project – for the male and the female stripping dies, and for the front stripper.
Layout Male Stripping Die

Layout Female Stripping Die

3. To get a clearer view of the stripping die, hide the parent drawing: in the graphical area, right-click, and then click
Show Parent Drawing.
The front stripper
The male stripping die with the parent drawing hidden

The female stripping die with the parent drawing hidden

In the male stripping die, some of the stripping wooden pieces have been substituted by stripping knives, which we
will now edit out. This must be done to ensure better stripping of the waste. This editing will result in more effective
strippers.
To be able to draw, we show the parent drawing. It is necessary to take the parent drawing into account. That's why
we visualize the parent drawing.

Visualization of the parent drawing

Placing strip pins

1. On the Diemaking toolbar, click Stripping Die Components.

A contextual edit bar appears above the graphical area.

2. In the contextual edit bar, in Components, click the down arrow, and click Strip Pin 1.

NOTE: To ensure identical positioning across the dieboard, ensure that the Repeat Changes button

— — is pressed in.

Here the component is placed and an additional stripping line is drawn.

A strip pin is inserted.

3. Continue with the editing of the rest of the zones with stripping elements.
Placing male lifters

Next comes the placement of lifters on the male stripping die.

1. On the Diemaking toolbar, click Stripping Die Components.

A contextual edit bar appears above the graphical area.

2. In the contextual edit bar, in Components, click the down arrow, and click Male Lifter 03.

Placing of lifters into the lower left part (P1).

The lifters in P1: the final state

Placing mounting bars onto the male stripping die

1. On the Diemaking toolbar, click Stripping Die Components.

A contextual edit bar appears above the graphical area. In them you can set your own hole offsets for positioning the
bar.

2. In the contextual edit bar, in Components, click the down arrow, and click Male Bar.
Two mounting bars have been placed

Placing vacuum holes

1. On the Diemaking toolbar, click Stripping Die Components .

NOTE: The use of preset components is optional. These vacuum holes can be drawn by hand and given a particular
style.

2. In the contextual edit bar, in Components, click the down arrow, and then click Vacuum Hole – rectangle with
fillets.
Here the vacuum holes are being positioned. In case it’s necessary, the holes can be extended or constricted. This is
done in the contextual edit bar.

The vacuum holes have been added.

Placing mounting bars onto the female stripping die

1. On the Diemaking toolbar, click Stripping Die Components .

NOTE: A contextual edit bar appears containing parameters for the bar component. In them you can set your own
hole offsets for positioning the bar.

2. In the contextual edit bar, in Components, click the down arrow, and click Plywood Bar Holes 02.
3. Position the two mounting bars where you want them to be.

Two bars have been placed. Note the two horizontal lines. They mark the place and the size of the locking tooth,
which serves for the mounting of the die onto the machine.
Placing transportation bolts

We are now back to the male stripping die, in which we must visualize the female stripping die. This is necessary so
that the bars in the female die become visible. The transportation bolts must not be positioned where there are bars.

1. To visualize the female stripping die, in the graphical area, click and then on the context menu click Show
complementary drawing.

Both the male and the female stripping dies are visible.
2. On the Diemaking toolbar, click Place Strip Clip Components .

NOTE: A contextual edit bar appears containing parameters for the bar component. In them you can set your own
hole offsets for positioning the bar.

3. In the contextual edit bar, in Components, click Transportation Bolt Hole 2.

A positioned bolt hole. The dotted lines mark the physical size of the bolt's bed as it will be mounted on the stripping
die.

If the space is limited, the positioning of the transportation bolts can make necessary the editing of some components
that have been already positioned. In the current case we will edit the size of a vacuum hole to make room for the
bolt's aperture.

The holes for transportation bolts are positioned.

Designing additional stripping elements

Next we come to cutting the additional elements needed for the stripping process. This includes the cutting (twice) of
the female bars and the lower front strippers.

1. On the Diemaking toolbar, click Generate Support Tools .

The Stripping Support Tools dialog box appears.

This dialog box contains the rules for the creation of the support instruments. The rules that appear are the default
ones, but you can create your own.

2. Create your rules, and then click OK.

A new drawing appears after the rules have been created and accepted.

The lower front stripper and the female plywood bars for the mounting of the female stripping die

Creating bridge drawings

1. On the Diemaking toolbar, click Generate All Bridges .

The Create Bridges for Stripping Drawings dialog box appears.

This dialog box lists the bridge templates that will be applied in the stripping dies. Rules for the transfer
of objects between the male and the female dies are applied separately. An example is the transportation bolt hole,
which is positioned into the male stripping die during the design. A corresponding hole is necessary for it also in the
female die.

2. After the association of a bridge template for each drawing, individual bridge drawings are created that show how
each bridge template is applied. These are the actual projects for cutting the stripping instruments.
The male stripping die

The female stripping die with wooden chunks (on the periphery) that will be mounted on the male stripping die.

The front stripper

Bridge drawing of the support instruments