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Transcript
00:08
At this point, we’ve almost completely worked through our workflow.
00:12
We opened a new part, defined our stock, went through any machining preparation, created features, simulated and revised those features.
00:22
And now we’re ready to save our NC Code and send it to our machine.
00:27
Again, when we run simulations in FeatureCAM, NC Code is calculated in the background while the simulation is running.
00:35
So you’ll see right now, I just ran a 3D simulation, at this point I can navigate to the NC Code tab of my results fly-out.
00:45
And here I have all of the NC Code necessary to machine this part for our Fanuc 3-axis mill.
00:52
In the NC Code tab, we can verify all of the NC Code that we’ve generated and even make hand edits in this tab.
00:59
Once we have a code that we’re happy with, up in the right hand section, you’ll notice an icon to Save NC, we’ll select that, save it to a given directory, give it a file name.
01:12
For example, we may want that file name to be 001 and we can select what data we would like to save to our directory.
01:21
Now to machine this part, the only thing we really need is an NC program.
01:25
You’ll notice at this bottom list, we have an option for NC Program.
01:29
The rest of the options here may or may not be helpful for you or your operator.
01:34
We can also save in operations list, tool data for the tools being used to machine this part, feeds and speeds data, tool lists, machining configurations, the only necessary thing is our NC program.
01:48
So for this, I’m going to deselect everything but NC Program.
01:54
And I’ll finally select "OK".
01:58
Congratulations.
01:60
With that, you’ve successfully programmed your first part in FeatureCAM.
02:05
Just as a review, we used our workflow to help us program this part just like we will throughout this course.
02:11
We started by opening a new FeatureCAM document from scratch.
02:15
We defined our stock.
02:17
We handled machine preparation by placing our touch off point where our NC Code was calculated from, selecting a tool crib and selecting our post processor.
02:26
We created the feature from curves to create this triangular pocket as well as the feature from dimensions to create the holes.
02:33
We simulated the machining of our features and made some necessary revisions and we finally saved our NC Code to a specified directory.
02:41
At this point, we’re ready to go the machine and cut our part.
Video transcript
00:08
At this point, we’ve almost completely worked through our workflow.
00:12
We opened a new part, defined our stock, went through any machining preparation, created features, simulated and revised those features.
00:22
And now we’re ready to save our NC Code and send it to our machine.
00:27
Again, when we run simulations in FeatureCAM, NC Code is calculated in the background while the simulation is running.
00:35
So you’ll see right now, I just ran a 3D simulation, at this point I can navigate to the NC Code tab of my results fly-out.
00:45
And here I have all of the NC Code necessary to machine this part for our Fanuc 3-axis mill.
00:52
In the NC Code tab, we can verify all of the NC Code that we’ve generated and even make hand edits in this tab.
00:59
Once we have a code that we’re happy with, up in the right hand section, you’ll notice an icon to Save NC, we’ll select that, save it to a given directory, give it a file name.
01:12
For example, we may want that file name to be 001 and we can select what data we would like to save to our directory.
01:21
Now to machine this part, the only thing we really need is an NC program.
01:25
You’ll notice at this bottom list, we have an option for NC Program.
01:29
The rest of the options here may or may not be helpful for you or your operator.
01:34
We can also save in operations list, tool data for the tools being used to machine this part, feeds and speeds data, tool lists, machining configurations, the only necessary thing is our NC program.
01:48
So for this, I’m going to deselect everything but NC Program.
01:54
And I’ll finally select "OK".
01:58
Congratulations.
01:60
With that, you’ve successfully programmed your first part in FeatureCAM.
02:05
Just as a review, we used our workflow to help us program this part just like we will throughout this course.
02:11
We started by opening a new FeatureCAM document from scratch.
02:15
We defined our stock.
02:17
We handled machine preparation by placing our touch off point where our NC Code was calculated from, selecting a tool crib and selecting our post processor.
02:26
We created the feature from curves to create this triangular pocket as well as the feature from dimensions to create the holes.
02:33
We simulated the machining of our features and made some necessary revisions and we finally saved our NC Code to a specified directory.
02:41
At this point, we’re ready to go the machine and cut our part.
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