I agree with the comment by rg006 re. Janus Engineering for the supply of postprocessors. We've been using one for about six years on a DMu50EV and two DMu70eV 5-axis machining centres with the Heidenhain iTNC530 control successfully.
Hi Joycejo,
Sorry, when I stated I created a helical thread milling template in the original post, what I meant was I was using the original NX one 'out of the box'. It's just that the engages and retracts are customised manually within the standard NX template using 'magic numbers' to create a...
Hi all,
Just a bit of feedback.
It seems that I was mistaken re. the difference between 32 and 64 bit operating systems.
It now appears that if you select the Threadmilling template, NX searches for every component in the assembly tree of the CAM file, both in 32 and 64 bit mode.
Is there...
Hello all CAM guru's,
Having recently created a Helical thread-milling template which worked fine in NX4 and 6 in 32 bit mode, we have now hit a snag following an upgrade to 64 bit Windoze operating system.
Where we were able to generate the thread-milling operation in about 15 seconds, it now...
Depending on how your post-processors are set up, Cutcom and Adjust values equal the tool number on post-processing. Cutcom defines a cutter radius or diameter offset, (depending on how it's defined in your machine controller tool tables), Adjust defines the G43 H value.
e.g. T6 M6
G90...
To nkwheelguy.
Ahhh...that's got it working; the penny dropped when you stated that the trick was to make the view active, which was something I was not familiar with being a CAM guy. I also now appreciate the use of using sketches to maintain the associativity in drafting, I do use sketches in...
Gents,
I tried inserting curves by turning on the curve creation tool-bar as per joycejo and hudson888 suggestion, it now allows me to add curves as per NX4 as intended, so thank you all for that. I still think it should be investigated as to why it doesn't work via the menu - a task for Mr...
Thanks for the response guys.
Joycejo: Yep, I have no problem expanding the view, but all the Insert > curve options are greyed-out, apart from Text which can be added.
nkwheelguy: Okay, I can insert a sketch, but I can't constrain it to the edge of the component, the 'old-way' allowed me to...
Hello all,
Occasionally I need to draw curves in expanded views for the benefit of my machine tool operators. It appears that this functionality is now absent in NX6. Is this now the case and is there an alternative method I can use without having to add curves to the model?
Hi everyone,
Okay, so I've been able to apply the above fix using Modelling Preferences, but is there a setting under Customer Preferences that will do the same? Currently, every time I create a new session or re-open an old one the setting reverts back to the original out of the box setting of...
Hi all,
Following my company's migration from NX4 to NX 6.0.2.8 I have a conundrum whereby I have a component part on say layer 1, but I wish to create a linked body of the same to layer 200, which is my work layer. The resultant linked body is always created on layer 1 in NX6, but I seem to...
