News - NX Manufacturing

Paper Dreams – replacing paper and glue with carbon and software

April 18, 2014

Paper or Plastic (er.. carbon composite) ??

For Mechanical Engineering student Paul Bischof, a dream came true; he turned his hobby into a profession, replaced paper and glue with carbon…

By DerekHart

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How to create VoluMill roughing patterns with NX CAM

March 12, 2014

Celeritive’s VoluMill pattern is a patented approach to high speed roughing that is well-suited to hard materials. See how easy it is to use the VoluMill plug-in for NX CAM and create these …

By DerekHart

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How to smooth out high speed machine motion with NX CAM

March 12, 2014

Is your high speed machine suffering from fitful accel/decel as it process rapid traverse motions? If you isolate Z-travel as part of G0 rapid processing in order to “decend last” or “lift f…

By DerekHart

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Why CAD/CAM Integration Matters

February 24, 2014

Change is unavoidable
Manufacturers are famously conservative. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. They’ll put up with workarounds if it means minimizing change – minimizing risks to their production….

By DerekHart

3 MIN READ

G71 Lathe Roughing Cycle

February 18, 2014

I recently received a request to demonstrate how to create a G70/71 lathe roughing cycle in our Post Builder product. Our CAM Development team created CYCLE95 (lathe roughing for Siemens contro…

By wrightj

2 MIN READ

Create associative manufacturing models in NX CAM with Part Modules

February 5, 2014

NX provides the CAD/CAM integration needed to build fully associative manufacturing models, including in-process models and fixtures. One way to build these associative setups in a single part f…

By DerekHart

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Create Stock Body from Design Body

February 4, 2014

When a job shop receives the 3D model of a part to be machined, they seldom receive a 3D model of the raw stock (or stock body). For most situations, that’s not a problem, because there are sev…

By wrightj

3 MIN READ

NX9 CAM Interactive Cut Regions

January 14, 2014

Interactive Cut Region management is a new tool added to NX9 to help CAM users easily segregate “steep” from “non-steep” areas*. This new capability means that the overall NC programming proces…

By wrightj

2 MIN READ

Take a tour of the NX Manufacturing Forum

December 6, 2013

Our new NX manufacturing forum has been up and running for most of a year, now. Join us for a tour of all the forum features and content and learn how to open an account and get in on the fun. T…

By DerekHart

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