Adhesive Bonding provides the following setup options:

This specifies the type of adhesive to use, which affects costs for Expendable Tooling for Adhesive Bonding.

By default in starting point VPEs, the adhesive type is Acrylic . Administrators can customize the default with the cost model variable defaultAdhesiveResin. With this setup option, users can override the default on a per-part basis, and specify one of the resin types listed in the lookup table adhesiveResins.

This setup option specifies the percentage of the total assembly surface area to which adhesive is applied. This value plays a role in Cycle Time Formulas for Adhesive Bonding as well as in calculations for Expendable Tooling for Adhesive Bonding.

In starting point VPEs, the default portion of total surface area to be bonded is 10%. Administrators can customize the default by using the cost model variable defaultPercentBonded. Users can override the default on a per-part basis with this setup option.