{"id":1139,"date":"2014-05-15T14:22:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T21:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/News-NX-Manufacturing\/How-to-add-right-angle-heads-to-your-machines-in-NX-CAM\/ba-p\/31404"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:20:30","slug":"how-to-add-right-angle-heads-to-your-machines-in-nx-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/how-to-add-right-angle-heads-to-your-machines-in-nx-cam\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add right angle heads to your machines in NX CAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/5548iBA3AED373F324DA0\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Right Angle Head image.png\" title=\"Right Angle Head image.png\" align=\"center\" \/><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Machine definition gets tricky when optional devices like right-angle heads change the kinematic structure of the machine. This Tech Tip shows you how to do it.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>the example machines delivered with the NX CAM software now include devices as part fo the machine definitions. See how these devices can be used to specify optional right-angle heads for your machine tool simulations. Learn:<\/P><\/p>\n<p><UL><br \/>\n<LI>What are devices and how do they participate in the machine hierarchy<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>How to include right angle devices as part of your programming<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>How to add devices to your device library<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Tech-Tips-Knowledge-Base-NX\/How-to-add-right-angle-heads-to-machines-for-simulation-in-NX\/ta-p\/31388\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See the Tech Tip replay here!<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n Machine definition gets tricky when optional devices like right-angle heads change the kinematic structure of the machine. This Tech Tip shows you how to do it. <\/p>\n<p> the example machin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61905,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,165],"tags":[44,205],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tips-tricks","tag-milling","tag-postprocessing-machining-simulation"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Right-Angle-Head-image.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}