Posts Tagged ‘CAM’
Michigan Tech Summer Youth CAM Camp
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
It’s that time of year when I’m booking my boys into summer camps. After the FIRST Robotics Competition, they are definitely signed up for a robotics camp. There are a lot of great summer programs for young students. Here is one you might find interesting: Michigan Tech’s summer youth CAM program. John Irwin, program chair of Mechanical Engineering Technology and Industrial Technology, presented it at PLM Connection this week.
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New NX 8 Help and Videos
Monday, February 27th, 2012
With NX8, the NX Help system has a new interface that makes it easier for you to find information and browse content.
Some of the key enhancements are:
- Search performance is improved.
- Search filtering gives you control to search in specific areas of NX.
- Help is reorganized to make navigation more logical, to increase the relevancy of search results, and to make search filtering more specific.
- Breadcrumb links are available on each page to help you keep track of your location. ( A table of contents is still available, but is not displayed by default. )
- Links to all related information are displayed on the right side. Links are organized by information type under different headings.
- And my favorite enhancement; the video examples included with the Help now include voice-over narration. This narration provides important information about the steps being demonstrated. For each video, you can use the options on the play bar to display closed caption text or to mute the narration.
Following is a video from NX Help:
Be sure to click on the red CC button, to see the caption text.
Would you like to see more NX help videos? Let me know if you’d like me to post more of them.
Jerry
NX 8 for CAM and Tooling
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
As I mentioned before, NX 8 contains over 400 customer focused projects across the entire product. One of the areas that I’d like to highlight is CAM and Tooling (as we call it, Manufacturing).
Following is an interview with Mirko Bäcker of our European team discussing NX 8 for manufacturing.
Jerry
Introducing NX 8 for manufacturing productivity
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
NX CAM redefines manufacturing productivity with a full range of NC programming capabilities optimized for machinery parts. Advanced programming capabilities that are necessary for machinery parts are available with milling, drilling, turning, mill-turn and wire EDM applications. And with NX 8, new processors provide the most efficient approach for programming prismatic features like holes, slots and pockets. The milling, turning and mill-turn functions are enhanced with stocksensitive tracking of the in-process work piece to make machinery part programming fast and simple.
Jerry
Solid Edge Tips & Tricks: Using Trim Boundaries instead of face selection with CAM Express
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Find out how to create boundaries in CAM Express, and an example of when it’s a better method of restricting where parts are machined when defining a tool path.
www.siemens.com/plm/camexpress
MORE TIPS AND TRICKS FROM GTAC
Solid Edge Tips & Tricks: CAM Express Face Milling Associativity
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
This week’s show brings back Jim Wright and CAM Express. Find out how tool paths created with ‘face selection’ in CAM Express automatically update after changes to your Solid Edge models, eliminating the need to recreate a new boundary or update it to match the new geometry.
MORE TIPS & TRICKS FROM GTAC
What is the option ‘Use Geometry-based Naming’ for in the Part Copy command when selecting Parasolid files?
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks go High Def – Face Milling Without Boundaries in CAM Express
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
The Solid Edge Tips & Tricks series has gone High Def! Change the YouTube settings to HD (720p) so you can better see the mouse clicks and UI in the Tips and Tricks series. Don’t forget to go full screen.
How to view Tips & Trick in High Def on YouTube
The newest Tip brings us back to CAM. Jim Wright, our resident CAM Express guru, will show you how face selection is used to automatically constrain tool paths on machined surfaces with CAM Express.
For more info on CAM Express: www.siemens.com/plm/CAMExpress
We’ll be back next week with a Tip & Trick on Solid Edge Simulation 
Solid Edge Tips and Tricks from the Experts can be seen weekly. These short videos illustrate how to better utilize features and functions of the Solid Edge CAD software, ultimately helping you do your job more efficiently.
Aston Martin to Standardize Its Global Sports Car Development with Siemens PLM Software
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Whenever I hear the name Aston Martin, I think of 3 things. Custom-made, High-technology, and the world famous British spy created by Ian Fleming.
When I first heard that Aston Martin is standardizing its global sports car development process using NX™ software for integrated computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE) and Teamcenter® software to manage their product and process knowledge, I was extremely excited.
Aston Martin began an extensive PLM technology evaluation two years ago. The decision to migrate from their current technology to NX and Teamcenter is critical to its mission of continuing to produce some of the world’s greatest sports cars.
This announcement emphasizes Siemens PLM Software’s automotive market leadership and underscores the importance of our open strategy.
So if you’re like me, I recommend that you subscribe to Aston Martin’s YouTube channel to see videos like this
and follow them on Twitter so you can keep up with Aston Martin Racing.
Jerry
Solid Edge Tips & Tricks: CAM Express Verification
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
In the third video in our CAM Express series, Jim Wright explains how understanding the differences between, Simulation, Verification and Post processing in CAM to see if a part can be manufactured, avoid breaking cutting tools or wrecking a machine will get the most efficient cutting strategy.
For more info on CAM Express: www.siemens.com/plm/camexpress
Solid Edge Tips & Tricks from GTAC
I can’t locate the Text Profile command in ST3 using command finder?
While in a sketch or a profile the Text Profile command is in Tools > Insert.
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Solid Edge Tips & Tricks: CAM Express Connection
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
In this week’s tip we show connectivity between Solid Edge and CAM Express from the Velocity Series. In this example synchronous technology is used to make rapid changes to model the model after the tool path has been created. Tight connectivity between CAD and CAM ensures no work is lost as the tool path automatically updates.
For more info on CAM Express: www.siemens.com/plm/camexpress
We have a few Tips & Tricks from our GTAC organization that might be helpful. All of these are a result of customers asking questions of our support organization. Thanks Edgers!
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