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Prismatic Machining
Detailed Steps
Table of Contents
10. Select Face Mill icon and keep the default tool with a 50mm diameter
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Prismatic Machining Detailed Steps
D. Define Macros
11. Select Macro tab page
18. To change an option, click on the right down arrow of the icon
Explanation for these options is available via ? button.
Pocket 2 Pocket 3
Pocket 4
Pocket 1
Pocket 5
A. Create pocket 2
1. Select last operation in the PPR tree (Facing.2 operation)
Top
Bottom
b. Select the new bottom: (we want to machine the pocket only until the top of the island)
In the Operation Definition window, select again the bottom representation then select the Top of
the island as new bottom to relimit the depth of the pocket:
c. Remove island: press right mouse button onto the island representation then select Remove All
Islands in the contextual menu.
Photo mode
B. Finishing pocket 2
12. Select pocketing icon
13. Select the geometry: Top and Bottom to finish the pocket
Top
Bottom
C. Create Pocket 1
20. Select last operation (Pocketing.2)
21. Click on Pocketing icon
22. Select the geometry
Top
Bottom
D. Create Pocket 4
30. Copy last pocketing operation: Pocket 1
- Click on the operation Pocket 1 with the right mouse button
- Select Copy in the contextual menu
33. Remove the current geometry by using contextual menu on Boundary (Remove all contours) and on
Bottom (Remove)
E. Create Pocket 3
40. Duplicate Pocket 1 operation:
-Copy operation Pocket 1 via contextual menu
-Select the last operation: Pocket 4
-Select Paste via contextual menu
41. Edit the operation
42. Rename it in Pocket 3
43. Select the new geometry
F. Create Pocket 5
48. Select last operation in the PPR tree (Pocket.3 operation)
53. Select the Bottom and the Top of the pocketing operation
Bottom
Top
54. Soft boundary is automatically put in dotted line (Soft boundary means that the tool can cross it
contrary to Hard boundary that the tool is not authorized to cross it)
55. In the Strategy tab page, select HSM Tab Page
56. Deactivate High Speed Milling option
57. In the Macro tab page:
Define the following macros:
- Approach: Axial mode with 30mm
- Retract: Keep the macro automatically initialized by the previous operation
- Return between levels approach: Axial mode with 10mm
- Return between levels retract : Axial mode with 5mm
Top
Bottom
- As the option Contour Detection is no more activate, the boundary is not automatically initialized
- For the contour selection, select 2 edges then click on Navigate on Belt of Edges icon
- Click OK to finish the edges selection
2
1
-Select Limit1 and Limit2 edges for tool path (any vertex can be selected)
Limit1
Limit2
-Select Out option for the 2 Limits to start and to finish outside the part
Right click on Start: In, then select Out
- Select the contour by selecting Edge 1, Edge 2, Navigate on Edges Until an Edge icon then
select the last edge to navigate until it.
2
1
4
- Check that the arrow is pointing outside the material. This arrow is used to display the side where
the tool will be positioning
- Click OK to finish the edge selection
- Select Limit element shown below as starting element
Limit1
Limit2
Fixture
C. Contouring Pocket 1
15. Select last operation (profile contouring 2)
Bottom
2. Select the 2 first edges then click on Navigate on Belt of Edges icon. The 10 following edges are
taking into account. Select manually the 2 last edges or modify in the Option Panel of the Edge
Selection panel the Maximum Steps Forward value.
17. Select in the contextual menu on the Manufacturing View: Sort by Machining Features
23. Double click on Tool Query in the Machining Process View tree
29. Save it in the same directory than the previous CATProcess under the name:
MyMachiningProcess.catalog
30. Click OK to save the catalog. This catalog is strongly linked to the CATProcess
40. Double click on Machining Processes then double click on Machining Process.1
42. Click OK to create the 2 pocketing operations needed to machine pocket 3 after the Facing.2
operation
Select Add PP word list icon or use contextual menu PPword list
7. Select the Major word CUTCOM in the list (Major words with parameters)
12. in the Options tab page, Name it MyApproachMacro and add a comment
18. As for Approach macro, select the Major Word CUTCOM in the list then the NC_CUTCOM_OFF
syntaxe
22. in the Options tab page, Name it MyRetractMacro and add a comment
28. Double click on Approach type to display your own approach macro
Note: Now this macro is available for all your machining operations as Approach macro
14. Repeat this operation with the different Go Delta option (along X or Y, Components,.) in order to
get this grid and schema :
6. Select the Manufacturing View icon and use the Sort by Machining Feature contextual menu
to display your Prismatic Machining Area
10. Select geometry to machine (Pocket 1) and level of insertion in the PPR tree (Drilling.1) as follows:
4. You must have 2 Guides not connected, in other case check in the Edge Selection menu the Options
panel and select as Link types: No Link
5. Select Out for the Start en End condition with an
offset of 5mm
6. In Tool tab page, select a tool with query icon
7. Look in ToolAssembliesSample01 catalog and
select End Mill D10 Rc0 tool
9. Select the Read macro from catalog icon and go to AddEx03-Manuf directory to read the
Mymacrocatalog.catalog
Note that we could select non continuous profiles (Guide 1 & Guide 2)
3. In Tool tab, select a tool with query icon
4. Look in ToolAssembmiesSample01
5. Select an End Mill tool
- Nominal diameter=6mm
- Corner radius=0mm
3. In Geometry tab page, select Between Two Planes Mode, and Top/Bottom as the picture below:
Note: Check that the extremity of the pocket is open (Dotted line)
5. In Macro tab page, keep the default macros coming from the previous Pocketing operation
6. Replay the Pocketing operation
3. In Geometry tab page, select Between Two Planes and geometry as the picture below:
Note: Start by selecting the boundary (5 edges) rather the bottom. If you select first the bottom, you will
have to delete the boundary to reselect the right one. Another option is to deactivate the option Contour
Detection to not take automatically the boundary when you select the bottom
Note: Use the Edge Selection menu, select the 2 first edges then click on Navigate on belt of edges
4. In Macro tab page, keep the same macros as the previous operation but remove from the all the
tangent motions done in machining feedrate.