I recently received a request to demonstrate how to create a G70/71 lathe roughing cycle in our Post Builder product. Our CAM Development team created CYCLE95 (lathe roughing for Siemens contro…
When a job shop receives the 3D model of a part to be machined, they seldom receive a 3D model of the raw stock (or stock body). For most situations, that’s not a problem, because there are sev…
Interactive Cut Region management is a new tool added to NX9 to help CAM users easily segregate “steep” from “non-steep” areas*. This new capability means that the overall NC programming proces…
My last blog post was about the Description field enhancement. Now I want to cover its companion, Notes. Notes give the NC programmer an easy-to-use capability to convey information direc…
In each release of NX, there are always enhancements that are overlooked and underappreciated. I think the enhancements made to Notes and Description fields in NX9 CAM fit into this category. …
I showed in a previous blog post how to use Divide By Holder to keep the cutting tool as short as possible. Today I want to show how to take advantage of multi-axis capability of NX CAM and CAM…
In this post, I want to explain some of the options for working with Flow Cut. I find that new users consistently struggle with understanding some of these options.
First up is Max…
“Pencil Milling” is the name given to a machining strategy where a small-diameter ball end mill is used to perform finish milling in small nooks and crannies of a complex mold or die. The word …
In my last post, I showed several wrong ways to machine steep and non-steep geometry. In this post, I will show a method that is better.
NX CAM can scrutinize a model and determine…
