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 controllers) support a few releases back, so I thought it would be relatively easy to copy that functionality and modify it for Fanuc controls. I sent an e-mail to some NX CAM experts to see if anyone had done that already \u2013 I thought I could shorten the learning curve for myself by examining an already-completed project. The answer that came back was \u201cI don\u2019t know how to break this to you, Jim, but G70\/71 support is already supported in Post Builder.\u201d Hey, that\u2019s terrific (and a little bit embarassing)! Now it is even easier to demonstrate how this works.<\/P><\/p>\n
Before I go any farther, let me answer the question that is already forming in your head \u2013 \u201cWait, NX has been out how long and just now it can create a lathe roughing cycle?\u201d Easy there, Tiger. The ability to create lathe roughing cycles has been available for almost as long as the software has been sold, but it did take a fairly high level of knowledge about post processing AND (here\u2019s the important part) the simulation of the tool path inside NX would not show the roughing cycle.<\/P><\/p>\n
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This video shows how to implement this new functionality.<\/P><\/p>\n
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