Autodesk Inventor CAD & Solidcam 2023 & NX Mold Wizard

Explore the solid cam introduction and interface, covering milling, turning, roughing, finishing, and drilling. Learn stock and tool creation, machine definitions, coordinates, and 2.5d and 3d milling and turning basics.

Learn the general steps of solid cam operations, including external or internal machining and selecting the CNC machine and coordinate system; define stock, target, geometry, and toolpaths.

Explore Solid Cam finish operation workflows after roughing, including tool selection, step down and step over settings, and generating g-code for vertical and horizontal surfaces.

Demonstrate 2.5d solidcam operations on pocket, face, slot, drilling, and profile for planar surfaces. Optimize toolpaths, coordinate systems, and g-code generation.

Define the coordinate system and stock with extrude boundary, then apply contour roughing and rest roughing to optimize toolpaths using helix ramping and climb versus conventional milling.

Explore 3-axis roughing in solid cam, including hatch roughing and contour roughing, and set up stock, coordinate systems, tool data, feeds and speeds with finishing passes.

Define stock and coordinate system, set the clamp, and run a solidcam roughing operation to generate the toolpath; gauge check avoids the clamp by selecting surfaces to avoid.

Master solidcam finish operations from roughing to multiple finish strategies, configuring toolpaths with boundary constraints, feeds, spindle speeds, and step parameters for horizontal, vertical, and helical machining.

Explore finish operations in SolidCAM, including linear and radial machining, default toolpaths, step over and step down, and radius and angle options with Z top and bottom settings.

In this solidcam session, define the coordinate system and stock, select a 3d model stroke with offset, and configure a 3-axis finishing operation. Simulate the toolpath and generate G-code.

Explore boundary machining in Solidcam 3axis finishing, defining a contour boundary to generate a single pass along the boundary with automatic or manual constraint options.

Learn SolidCam 3-axis finishing with 3D constant stepover, from roughing to tool passes, using 50% tool-diameter horizontal stepover; compare horizontal and vertical stepover, e.g., 0.07 vs 0.01, for finishing.

Set up the coordinate system and stock in solid cam turbo 3d hsm, then apply 3d with offset stock for finish passes using a ball nose tool.

Explore Solidcam 3axis finishing with rest machining, define the coordinate system, perform contour roughing, apply finish passes, and analyze rest material with toolpath verification.

Learn to create stock and set up tools in SolidCam by using books relative to the model, extruded boundary, 3d model, or cylinder, and configure coordinate systems and tool parameters.

Learn to use the coordinate system manager to edit coordinates and stock in SolidCam, build and manage tool libraries with end mills and holders, and create constrained boundary finishing toolpaths.

Explore turning operations in solid cam, including coordinate system setup, stock creation as a cylinder, facing, external and internal turning, grooving, drilling, and tool path calculations.

learn to set up a mill-turn part in solid cam, define stock and coordinate system, perform facing, outer turning, milling, and 2.5d drilling, and simulate the toolpaths.

Master solidcam multiaxis finishing with five axis milling, using drive surface and edge curves to keep the tool normal to the surface and parallel to curves.

Master SolidCam multiaxis finishing by configuring toolpaths parallel or perpendicular to curves and surfaces, using five-axis and four-axis operations, multi-bus passes, and precise home-position controls.

Explore SolidCam multiaxis finishing with 5x milling and tool axis control, using through line, through curve, through point, and fixed tilt angles to create precise multi-axis tool paths.

Master multi-axis roughing with SolidCam, including stock setup, machining surface selection, five-axis roughing toolpaths, and corresponding finishing passes. Validate toolpaths with simulation and gadget check.

Explore multiaxis rotary machining in SolidCam, setting up the CNC machine and coordinate system, selecting surfaces, and configuring tools, feeds, and safety distances to generate and simulate finishing tool paths.

Learn solid cam multi-blade machining workflows, from defining stock and coordinate system to roughing, blade finishing, hub finishing, and performing array transformations to replicate toolpaths across the part.

Master SolidCam rotary machining by defining coordinate system and surfaces, selecting Bolanos mill, setting a clearance area, and creating a smooth rotary finishing tool path with along rotary X strategy.

In this solid cam course lecture, learn multi-axis drilling along with roughing and finishing, set up a cylinder stock, generate tool paths, perform safety checks, and simulate the drilling process.

Explore the injection mold concept and its components: core, cavity, locating ring, sprue and runner, ejector plate and pin, following a workflow from initialization to mold simulation.

Initialize the project, define material with shrinkage factor, rename the component to phone cover, set the mold coordinate system on the parting surface, and extrude the workpiece.

Create and center a cavity layout with rectangular and circular arrays, define core and cavity regions, visualize with colors, and patch surfaces to close voids using batch and manual steps.

Define regions to assign surfaces as cavity or core and create the parting surface. Use guidelines to set the parting line and then apply to finalize core and cavity definitions.

Define the mold base, sprue bushing, and locating ring using the mold base library and standard part library, then align parts to the center coordinate system.

Design and evaluate the ejection system by creating ejector pins, selecting types and dimensions (diameter 5, length 315), and refining with concept design and booster trim.

Learn to design a mold cooling system in NX mold: create view manager, sketch pattern channel, extend channels, define water cooling, set inputs and outputs, and complete concept design.

Create and adjust a gate and runner system using design fill in Autodesk Inventor, selecting and isolating core and cavity, and configuring runner types, diameters, and angles for multi-part molds.

This lecture guides creating the gate and runner system in a design file, detailing the runner and injection path from sketching curves to 3d rotation for proper diameter alignment.

In this session, create the bucket by subtracting material from plates, then set up and run the mold simulation using pre-process motion, kinematic models, and defined distances a and d.

Learn to generate a bill of material and assembly drawings from the mold wizard in NX, export the BOM to Excel, and manage part data.