Milling Machine Setup
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Introduction
Right-click Machine Setup to
open a shortcut menu with the following commands. These include commands
for modifying the machine setup and adding milling features, index systems,
and wrapping groups.
Machine Setup
- Edit - opens
the Machine
Setup dialog box in the Data Entry tab for you
to modify the current machining origin, work offset, and clearance
plane values.
- Mill Drill Hole
- opens the Hole Wizard for you to create a Drill Hole feature.
This handles drilling with the available operations: Center Drill,
Drill, Chamfer Drill, Chamfer Mill, Ream, and Bore.
- Mill Tap Hole
- opens the Hole Wizard for you to create a Tap Hole feature.
This handles tapping with the available operations: Center Drill,
Drill, Chamfer Drill, Chamfer Mill, Ream, Bore, Tap and Rolling
Tap.
- Mill Counterbore
Hole - opens the Hole Wizard for you
to create a Counterbore Hole feature. This handles counterbore
hole drilling with the available operations: Center Drill, Drill,
Chamfer Drill, Chamfer Mill, Ream, Counterbore Drill, and Counterbore
Mill.
- Mill Counterbore
Tap Hole - opens the Hole Wizard for you to create
a Counterbore Tap Hole feature. This handles counterbore hole
tapping with the available operations: Center Drill, Drill, Tap,
Rolling Tap Chamfer Drill, Chamfer Mill, Ream, Counterbore Drill,
and Counterbore Mill.
- Mill 2
Axis - opens the 2 Axis Wizard for you to create
a 2 Axis feature. This handles 2-axis machining with the available
operations: Profile Rough, Profile Finish, Pocket, Facing, Engraving,
Chamfer Mill, and Plunge Rough.
- Mill 3 Axis -
opens the 3 Axis Wizard for you to create a 3 Axis
feature. This handles 3-axis machining with the available operations:
Z Level Rough, Z Level Finish, Planar, Spiral, Radial, Plunge
Rough, Advanced Rough, Flatlands, Equidistant, and Pencil.
- Mill 4 Axis Rotary
- opens the 4 Axis Rotary Wizard for you to create
a 4 Axis Rotary feature. This handles simultaneous 4-axis rotary
machining with the available operation: 4 Axis Rotary.
- Mill Multiaxis - opens
the Multiaxis
Wizard for you to create a Multiaxis feature. This handles
multiaxis machining up to 5-axis output with the following toolpath
types: Wireframe, Multiaxis Roughing, Swarf and the surface-based
paths Parallel Cuts, Cuts Along Curve, Morph Between 2 Curves,
Parallel to Multiple Curves, Project Curves, Morph Between 2 Surfaces,
and Parallel to Surface.
- Mill Thread - opens
the Mill Thread Wizard for you to create a Mill Thread feature.
This handles mill threading with the available operations: Center
Drill, Drill, Chamfer Drill, Chamfer Mill, Ream, Bore, Pocket,
and Profile.
- Mill 3 Axis Wireframe
- opens the 3 Axis Wizard for you to create a 3 Axis
Wireframe feature. This handles 3D engraving with the available
operations: 3D Engrave Rough and 3D Engrave Finish.
- V-Carve - opens
the V-Carve Wizard for you to create a V-Carve feature.
This handles tapered pocketing and V-tool carving using the available
operations: Tapered Pocket and V-Carve Finish.
- Additional Functions
- point to this menu item to view the following commands.
- Compute All
Toolpath - computes the operations of all features
contained in the Machine Setup.
- Update All Geometries
- Updates all geometry associated in the
CAM Tree.
- Add Group -
adds a folder to your CAM Tree. Drag and drop features into
the folder to save space in the CAM Tree and have the control
to set Add Toolpath Pattern, Post All Yes/No and Blank/Unblank
Toolpath options on all features inside of the folder at one
time.
- Add Index
- adds an Index
System to the Machine Setup.
- Add Wrapping
Group - adds a Wrapping
Group to the tree for you to use Drilling, 2-Axis, and
3-Axis features to create 4-axis machining.
- Add Toolpath
Pattern - adds a Toolpath
Pattern to the selected machine setup. When added from
this location, the defined pattern is applied to all of the
features in the machine setup.
- Insert Setup
- inserts another Machine
Setup into the CAM Tree.
- Delete Setup
- removes a Machine Setup from the tree when there is more
than one.
- Delete All Features
- removes all milling features in the Machine Setup.
- Load Feature
- allows you to locate and add a previously saved milling feature
to the tree.
- Paste Feature
- is used to paste a copied feature to the Machine Setup after
the last feature.
- Post All Yes/No
- sets all toolpaths in the Machine Setup to post or not post
in the NC program.
- Blank/Unblank Toolpath
- allows you to hide or show all toolpaths in the Machine Setup.
- Rename -
enables editing of the Machine Setup name in the CAM Tree. Type
the new name for the setup.
To learn about the feature that is added to the job after finishing
the wizard, view Milling
Features in the CAM Tree.
Related Topics
The
CAM Overview
The
Milling Job
Defining
the Machine Setup
How
to Create Multiple Machine Setups
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