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NX CAM 10 offers a powerful solution for prismatic parts machining

New industry-specific capabilities in NX CAM 10 help you program faster and machine better quality parts. In this NX CAM 10 introduction article, we’ll take a look at some of the recent enha…

Preparing for NX 10 at CAM Fest

Preparing for NX 10 at CAM Fest

As we approach the formal release of NX 10, the NX CAM team did what they have done for more than 15 years: host a week-long training event for our partners and Siemens PLM Software people to get cur…

New NX CAM 9.0.2 Self-Demos available

 
NX CAM 9.0.2 self-demo describing smoothing corners in Flowcut Reference Tool operations

Bill Storrs has been posting brief demos of new functionality starting with NX 9.0.0. We…

Another happy customer – FUNCOSA

FUNCOSA, a machinery and heavy equipment casting supplier, is featured in a new customer case study.
http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/about_us/success/case_study.cfm?Component=227641&amp…

Learn to use Journal files in NX

The helpful automaton

I found this awesome little “I ndustrial-Grade P-8 Lifter Robot ” toy robot image on Lukas’s Flickr. He was nice enough to post it under the Creative Commons licens…

Quickly add new feature definitions for feature-based machining

The NX CAM feature recognition system is very flexible and provides opportunities for you to add your own custom geometry configurations into the feature libraries for Feature Based Machining (FBM). …

Try new custom templates for prismatic NC programming

NX has several options for customizing your CAM environment, including building your own template operations for common use cases. The Floor and Wall milling operation covers lots of different applic…

Let NX CAM create your in-process material models automatically

Manufacturing components in multiple setups often requires a programmer to provide an in-process workpiece to represent the partially cut condition to the next setup. This Tech Tip shows how to:

Set up your mill-turn machine with NX CAM

This Tech Tip shows how to use the example machines in your NX installation to setup a programming environment for mill-turns. Learn how to easily set up and simulate these versatile machines in…