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How ANGER MACHINING utilizes 3D process simulation with NX CAM

May 3, 2016

Customer Overview
Based in Austria, ANGER MACHINING specializes in the development and production of Transfer Centers for the machining of serial components with especially high precision requireme…

By Stephanie Aldrete
2 MIN READ

Learn to use Journal files in NX

June 30, 2014

The helpful automaton

I found this awesome little “I ndustrial-Grade P-8 Lifter Robot ” toy robot image on Lukas’s Flickr. He was nice enough to post it under the Creative Commons licens…

By DerekHart
2 MIN READ

Quickly add new feature definitions for feature-based machining

June 11, 2014

The NX CAM feature recognition system is very flexible and provides opportunities for you to add your own custom geometry configurations into the feature libraries for Feature Based Machining (FBM). …

By DerekHart
< 1 MIN READ

Let NX CAM create your in-process material models automatically

May 22, 2014

Manufacturing components in multiple setups often requires a programmer to provide an in-process workpiece to represent the partially cut condition to the next setup. This Tech Tip shows how to:

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By DerekHart
< 1 MIN READ

Paper Dreams – replacing paper and glue with carbon and software

April 18, 2014

Paper or Plastic (er.. carbon composite) ??

For Mechanical Engineering student Paul Bischof, a dream came true; he turned his hobby into a profession, replaced paper and glue with carbon…

By DerekHart
< 1 MIN READ

G71 Lathe Roughing Cycle

February 18, 2014

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…

By wrightj
2 MIN READ

Create Stock Body from Design Body

February 4, 2014

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…

By wrightj
3 MIN READ

NX9 CAM Interactive Cut Regions

January 14, 2014

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…

By wrightj
2 MIN READ

NX9 CAM “Notes” Enhancement

December 2, 2013

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…

By wrightj
2 MIN READ