{"id":1552,"date":"2014-05-22T08:26:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T15:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/News-NX-Manufacturing\/Let-NX-CAM-create-your-in-process-material-models-automatically\/ba-p\/31420"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:20:24","slug":"let-nx-cam-create-your-in-process-material-models-automatically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/let-nx-cam-create-your-in-process-material-models-automatically\/","title":{"rendered":"Let NX CAM create your in-process material models automatically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/5558iD7ACA0EEDF51E736\/image-size\/original?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"automatic in process material.png\" title=\"automatic in process material.png\" align=\"center\" \/><\/P><br \/>\n<P>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:<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Let NX CAM calculate the partially cut workpiece model at the end of one NC setup<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Reference a previous setup&#8217;s calculated in-process condition as the starting blank for a subsequent setup<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Reference in-process conditions from with the same part file or even from an external part file<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Tech-Tips-Knowledge-Base-NX\/Let-NX-CAM-create-your-in-process-material-models\/ta-p\/31394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See the Tech Tip here!<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: <\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61905,"featured_media":1553,"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":[169,44,38,202],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tips-tricks","tag-computer-aided-manufacturing-cam","tag-milling","tag-nc-programming","tag-part-manufacturing"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/automatic-in-process-material.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","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=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}