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…
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. …
Introducing three new self-demos designed to quickly bring you up to speed on what’s new for Complex Parts Machining in NX CAM 9. These enhancements include improved tool tilt control for both fixed …