NX 7.5 Single Piece Programming
NX 7.5 Single Piece Programming
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Hi All,
I'm new to this website, sorry if this is a topic covered in other threads.
My company manufactures knee implants for a customer. The knee implants are patient specific and are machined in one 4-axis milling operation. Being patient specific, I have to make a program for every knee. I do this by saving over an existing file, importing the new solid, re-picking surfaces for the operations and regenerating. It's not hard by any means, but I was just wondering if anyone knew a better way. I'm not really holding out much hope that there is, but you never know.
It takes me about 10-15 minutes to do each knee in the way I just described.
I'm new to this website, sorry if this is a topic covered in other threads.
My company manufactures knee implants for a customer. The knee implants are patient specific and are machined in one 4-axis milling operation. Being patient specific, I have to make a program for every knee. I do this by saving over an existing file, importing the new solid, re-picking surfaces for the operations and regenerating. It's not hard by any means, but I was just wondering if anyone knew a better way. I'm not really holding out much hope that there is, but you never know.
It takes me about 10-15 minutes to do each knee in the way I just described.





RE: NX 7.5 Single Piece Programming
Regards,
Tomas
RE: NX 7.5 Single Piece Programming
Add the single piece-part as a component of your manufacturing-assembly. WAVE-link the Face-Regions and Curve-Edge Boundaries of the model so that your CAM operations refer to these (rather than the model's entities). Notionally, you can Replace your OLD assembly component for the new one and re-map (as necessary) the Linked geometry. Re-Generate your toolpaths and post-process.
NXHerbie
NX7.5
RE: NX 7.5 Single Piece Programming