NX9 CAM Interactive Cut Regions

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…

New Tech Tip showcases new NX CAM 9 milling enhancements

New Tech Tip showcases new NX CAM 9 milling enhancements

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 …

New Tech Tips describe NX CAM 9 updates in Turning and Holemaking

New Tech Tips describe NX CAM 9 updates in Turning and Holemaking

Two new Tech Tips have been posted to the Tech Tip knowledge base. Both of these are distilled from Tom Van’t Erve’s webinar session last week. Tom presented the updates for both Turning and Holemaki…

Tilt Tool Axis

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…

New Tech Tip describes new-for-NX CAM 9 Cut Region Management

Last week’s Tech Tip was the first in our series of new NX CAM 9 enhancement webinars. This Tech Tip describes some powerful new options for optimizing cut patterns across steep and non-steep regions…

Pencil Milling Part 2

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 Part 1

“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 …

Machining Steep and Non-steep Geometry (Part 2)

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…

Tool Path Divide

  If you really want to scare an NC programmer, just show them a deep, narrow cavity on your latest design, and then comment that you must have a mirror-like surface finish at the bottom. …