Change is unavoidable Manufacturers are famously conservative. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. They’ll put up with workarounds if it means minimizing change – minimizing risks to their production….
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…
NX provides the CAD/CAM integration needed to build fully associative manufacturing models, including in-process models and fixtures. One way to build these associative setups in a single part f…
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…
Our new NX manufacturing forum has been up and running for most of a year, now. Join us for a tour of all the forum features and content and learn how to open an account and get in on the fun. T…
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…
A new Tech Tips has been posted to the Tech Tip knowledge base showcasing several new enhancements to NX CAM 9.
Oliver Sing demonstrates the new multi-part programming workflow. This demo …
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. …
