{"id":2277,"date":"2013-05-22T14:33:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/News-NX-Manufacturing\/New-CAD-CAM-package-for-entry-level-machinery-milling\/ba-p\/1530"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:19:47","slug":"new-cad-cam-package-for-entry-level-machinery-milling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/new-cad-cam-package-for-entry-level-machinery-milling\/","title":{"rendered":"New CAD\/CAM package for entry-level machinery milling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><IMG src=\"https:\/\/siemensplm.i.lithium.com\/t5\/image\/serverpage\/image-id\/500iE3687A19FDFEEBB9\/image-size\/large?v=mpbl-1&amp;px=-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Prismatic1a.png\" title=\"Prismatic1a.png\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The newest software package for CNC machining from Siemens\u2019 NX<SUP>TM<\/SUP> software, NX 2.5 Axis Milling Foundation, combines a wide range of CAD and CAM capabilities into a single entry level package for highly effective modeling and machining of faces, pockets, and other prismatic features.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>This software package is ideal for shops that want a fully integrated CAD\/CAM solution suitable for modeling parts and fixtures, as well as machining 2.5 axis holes and features.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The CAM software includes face milling, planar milling, Z-level milling, pocketing, generalized roughing (including high speed machining capabilities), hole-making and feature-based machining.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The solids-based CAD software provides intelligent feature handling, full associativity. Specific capabilities include drafting, sketching, primitive solids, extrude, revolve, features modeling and Synchronous Modeling.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Synchronous Modeling is a very powerful tool for the preparing models for NC programming, because it can easliy adapt the solid model to represent various in-process conditions. And the included feature-based machining capability can be used to automate the 2.5 axis NC programming process for many common hole and milling features.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Additional software modules such as turning, 3- and 5-axis milling, and machine simulation are available as add-on items.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>For more information contact your Siemens PLM Software representative, or call 800-498-5351 (option 1).<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n The newest software package for CNC machining from Siemens\u2019 NX TM  software, NX 2.5 Axis Milling Foundation, combines a wide range of CAD and CAM capabilities into a single entry level packa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61905,"featured_media":2278,"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],"tags":[169,44],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-computer-aided-manufacturing-cam","tag-milling"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/Prismatic1a.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","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=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-manufacturing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}