Siemens NX CAM 1980 Essential Training

Floor Facing without Wall

Use this operation to cut one or more floors when no wall geometry is required.

This operation allows selecting floor geometry only.

If wall geometry is available later, for example after a design update, NX recognizes this wall geometry. However, you can't control the profile cut around this wall. For the most flexibility when a design is not yet finished, please use the Floor and Wall operation.

Floor and Wall

Use this operation for roughing to cut a floor and control how far to stay away from the wall.

You can select floor geometry which is connected to wall geometry. The floor geometry gives much more flexibility but you must define more parameters for the operation.

This operation roughs outs closed pocket geometry. You must select the floor geometry. By default, the wall is automatically recognized, but you can manually define the wall geometry. There are additional parameters to finish the wall inside the same operation.

NX allows only one cutting tool per operation. If different cutting tools are required for roughing and finishing you must create a minimum of two operations: a Pocket Milling operation to rough the pocket, and a Pocket Milling or Floor and Wall operation to finish using a different tool.

2D Profile Wall without Floor

This operation cuts walls only, where no floor geometry is available. The walls can be open or closed geometry, and the cut level can be below the bottom of the selected wall geometry. If floor geometry becomes available, for example after a design update, the operation does not gouge the floor. However, because this operation is designed for wall profiling, it will not have the additional options to control cutting on top of the new floor geometry.

For the most flexibility when a design is not yet finished, please use the Floor and Wall operation, which provides additional options, but requires you to define more parameters.

2D Profile Wall with Floor

This operation cuts walls where floor geometry is available. The final cut is a profile cut along the wall, and the cutting tool stays on top of the floor.

Cuts 3D Modeled Chamfers

This operation cuts chamfers on modeled chamfer geometry. You must select the chamfer geometry. Typically you should use a chamfer cutting tool.

Use the Groove Milling operation to machine linear grooves, slots, and clevises using T-Cutters. The operation provides several strategies to sequence the cutting passes, and automatically changes the tracking point for top and bottom cutting. You can efficiently use multiple operations to rough and finish machine the groove.

Planar Mill

Planar Mill operations remove material in planar cut levels normal to a fixed tool axis. Planar Mill is recommended for roughing out large volumes of material on prismatic parts with vertical walls.

Planar Profile 2D Wireframe Processor

Planar Profiling operations cut single pass multiple level tool paths that profile along the part boundaries.

This operation subtype is customized with a Profile cut pattern, and supports user-defined tools with tracking points.

Face Milling Manual

This operation subtype is customized with the Mixed cut pattern to let you specify a different cut pattern for each face. The available cut patterns include a Manual option that lets you position the tool exactly where you need to, similar to Teach Mode in Turning.

Cavity Milling processor remove large volumes of material. Cavity Milling removes material in planar levels that are perpendicular to a fixed tool axis. Cutting is completed at a constant Z level before moving on to the next Z level. The part geometry can be planar or contoured. Cavity Milling is ideal for rough-cutting parts, such as dies, castings, and forgings

Rest Milling

This operation subtype is customized to cut the material remaining from the in-process workpiece that a previous tool could not reach, due to its diameter and corner radius.

Z-Level Milling processor contour a part or cut area. Z-Level Milling removes material in planar levels that are perpendicular to a fixed tool axis. Cutting is completed at a constant Z level before moving on to the next Z level. The part geometry can be planar or contoured.

Adaptive Rough Milling

This operation subtype is used to create high speed roughing tool paths. The cut method does not follow any specific direction or pattern, but adapts to the cut area based on a consistent cutter engagement.

Curve Drive

This operation subtype follows either a curve or a row of points. It is recommended for engraving.

Contour Area

This operation subtype is customized with the Area Milling drive method to cut selected faces or a cut area. This operation subtype is commonly used for semi finishing and finishing.

3 Axis Deburring

This operation subtype deburrs edges while maintaining a fixed tool axis.

Contour Text

This operation subtype is customized to cut the text in a drafting note. This operation subtype is used for 3D engraving.

Streamline

This operation subtype is customized with the Streamline drive method to cut drive surfaces defined by curve sets. The curve sets can be automatically generated from the Part Geometry, or you can select points, curves, edges or surfaces to define the curve sets. A well-ordered grid of drive surfaces is not required.

Flow Mill Single

This operation subtype is customized with the Flow Mill drive method to finish or relieve corners and valleys.

Flow Mill Reference Tool

This operation subtype is customized to cut multiple passes, based on a previous reference tool diameter, with the Flow Mill drive method. This operation subtype is used to remove the remaining material in corners and valleys.

Contour Surface Area

This operation subtype is customized with the Surface area drive method to cut a single drive surface, or a well-ordered rectangular grid of drive surfaces.

Variable-axis Surface Contouring operation subtypes contour a part or cut area. Variable-axis Surface Contouring removes material along the part contours. There are multiple options for tool axis control.

Operation subtypes that use the Tube Machining processor rough and finish machine complex inner surfaces such as those commonly found in combustion engine intake manifolds and cylinder heads.

Tube Finish

Operation subtypes that use the Tube Machining processor rough and finish machine complex inner surfaces such as those commonly found in combustion engine intake manifolds and cylinder heads.

Variable Contour

This is the main Variable-axis Surface Contouring operation subtype, and is recommended for general use in variable-axis finishing of contoured surfaces.

Variable Streamline

This operation subtype is customized with the Streamline drive method to cut drive surfaces that are defined by curve sets. The curve sets can be automatically generated from the part geometry, or you can select points, curves, edges, or surfaces to define the curve sets. A well ordered grid of drive surfaces is not required.

Multi Axis Deburring

Recommended for multi-axis deburring when chamfers and fillets are not modeled.

Zlevel 5axis

This operation subtype tilts the tool axis away from the part geometry to avoid shank and holder collisions.

You can use the Roughing for Rotary Parts operation to rough machine cylindrical and conical parts.

The Conical Rotary Depth Mode allows the cut levels to follow the conical shape of the part.