Long story short, home from work now and forgot my GTAC password...
I'm at a shop with OLD iron to program on. Typically I must use a short 45 degree anti-backlash engage move prior drilling a hole (old problem I know). Was hoping someone has come up with a grip, journal, a hidden feature, or...
I heard about a couple hundred layoffs at their Grand Prarie Texas Facility. Rumor is they've decided on NX for their manufacturing solution as the v6 implementation was not going very well. Any publicly known truths to this? I would love to see NX back in the commercial airframe markets...
Every so often I get in a hurry and accidentally select the edge of a component body to trim a curve. NX6 does not like this at times and will error followed by Undo Successful (if you're lucky). Much safer to trim curves to curves. That said, in later versions can one safely trim curves to...
Been a long time NC programmer using UGNX (13 years). My current employer is using both NX and v5 (50-50). Recently they've decided to start moving everyone to Catia for programming to keep our customers from nagging us about compatibility (read political).
As such, I've been doodling with v5...
I hear it through the grape vine that Pratt & Whitney (Rocketdyne) out here in SoCal is looking at NX as a replacement for their now very dated V4 system (At least on the cam side). Would be nice to see more NX out our way... :-)
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Bill
I was just hired by one of my clients as a direct. The one issue is they don't allow ANY kind of contact other than phone or email to the outside world. There is no internet connection. The email is not nor it will ever be setup for newsreading. With these constraints (and it makes things really...
NX6:
When outputting bitmapped images of wireframe from Model view I'm getting jaggies on the diagonals. I've played with anti-aliasing in NX but of course that's only affecting the display. I've done it before but can't seem to remember exactly what I changed... Any ideas?
Here's a sample of...
Still on V6.0.4.
Wondering if 7 or 7.5 is supporting T-Cutters for Sequential Mill. I use the NX Verify so it would be nice to see the real deal there.
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Bill
Can't seem to see through the fog today - should be simple...
Using NX 6.0.4.
In the pic you'll see a planer mill op finishing a floor is 4 passes using Profile - Stepover - Multiple - .25" - .05" - 0.0." - 0.0". I'd like all passes to engage near the same location.
I've set Default Region...
Maybe I'm late to the party but...
After figuring them out a bit more, I found you can easily change just about any cam attribute pretty easily. For those dealing with global changes to hundreds of operations, changing things like engage/retracts, feeds, clearances is so simple now. Being in a...
I know they are still a bit pricey but since I'm upgrading...
Was looking at a Velociraptor 10k boot drive to put a new OS and my NX install on. About $150 bucks. But, for another $100 you can get a solid state drive. I've read some reviews on the SS drives but mostly from gamers and such. Was...
After I finish up this project, I need to move to Windows7 64bit on this single pc so I can add some memory to my existing 4gigs. I'm currently on XPPro 32bit.
Is there ANY chance I can "upgrade" the install or should I just assume a fresh wipe and install everything again to be safe. (OS...
I was programming airframe parts back on NX2. Since then I was doing machinery followed by turbine parts. Now I'm back into the airframe world with NX6 and using Contour Profile. It's the cat's meow! I don't usually get too happy about such things but since my current part is 20' long with 25...
Looking to get a current xyzab output on the last G94 line. Currently I'm forcing output on every line just to insure it's there.
First,
I'm using the code below in the linear move event to force xyzab during G93:
global feed_mode
if { $feed_mode == "FRN" || $feed_mode == "INVERSE" } {...
Very subjective question but times change and lots of new processors on the market now:
What would be a good solid PC setup for NX? Since I've recently been given the opportunity to do freelance NC programming, I'm a bit fuzzy on requirements given the new cpus.
At my previous employer, I had...
NX6.0.1.5
Created a Revolved Solid from basic curves and splines (yes I should use sketches...). I jumped around from project to project and when I reopened the file, the solid is intact but some of the curves are missing. The Revolve operation shows only the existing curves yet the full solid...
NX6...
Created a custom view in modeling. Go to drafing create a base view using that view. Try to created a projected view: it's not available. I've done this forever but I must have changed a setting somewhere. Any idea?
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Bill
Over the years I've never really concerned myself with assigning a workpiece with the MCS. I always had Vericut for verification. I'd just select the part features required for each operation. The past 2 years, I've not had access to Vericut. So, now I rely totally on using NC Verify. The issue...
