When back turning into a recess or groove it’s important that the back turning cycle knows the current condition of stock to avoid air cutting and potential collisions on the approach into the recessed area.
Update stock is supported from the most basic 2 axis turning centre, right through to a CYB multi turret sub spindle Mill / Turn. Subsequent toolpaths will automatically detect the rest material resulting in 100% efficiency for any turning toolpath throughout the EDGECAM sequence. The stock model is rest material, or material that hasn’t been machined. Update stock EDGECAM has the ability to keep the stock updated live within the sequence tree. EDGECAM offers support for Sandvik Coromant Wiper inserts for turning tools, allowing these productivity enhancing inserts to be used reliably in all aspects of production machining. Ease of use and an understanding that cycle times are critical, especially on multi-configuration mill/turn machines, underpin the development of EDGECAM’s turning functionality. Toolpath calculation takes into consideration the complete tooling insert and tool Holder including the “F” distance and previously machined material to avoid gouging and eliminate air cutting. Avoid collisions and expensive damage to machine toolĮDGECAM produces advanced rough and finish turning cycles, together with support for facing, boring and drilling in either canned cycle or longhand format.Reduce machine tool prove out by graphically simulating the tool path.Eliminate programming errors and reduce potential scrap.
On a mill/turn machine, C-, Y- and B-Axis milling and drilling take place within the same program as the turning to provide a fully integrated and associative programming solution.ĮDGECAM fully supports all axis configurations from the most basic 2 axis turning centre, right through to a CYB multi turret sub spindle Mill / Turn. Mazak Training Fanuc Trainingĭon’t forget we offer training on all types of Mazak Machines and all Fanuc Controls 6m to 31i Oi old to young.EDGECAM Turning Production turning for 2-axes > MTM machinesĮDGECAM Turning provides functionality for a wide range of machine tools, including 2-Axis lathes, multiturret configurations, sub-spindle turning centres and mill/turn machines. If you click the model on the screen a box will appear with the layer name which you can change if you so wish.Įdgecam Tutorial Assemblies and Filters Services offered at CNC Training CentreĬNC Training on all controls and machines. These are the layers I would want going into simulation so I can easily see them to turn them on. I usually try to put my model, my stock and my fixtures at the top, each prefixed with a space. That way these would all sit together in the list. You could prefix all your containment boundaries with a number 1 so it would be 1 CONT TOP EDGE etc. You could use two spaces and be sure it will be above anything else. If you prefix something with a space it will go to the top of the tree because in alphabetical index space is before letter A. I am sure you can work out your own system for this. For example CLAMPS and if you have made containment boundaries I usually prefix the layer CONT and then the name TOP EDGE or whatever it is. Ok so what you do is always use meaningful names for your layers.
So you try switching them all on, oh dear what a mess more clutter than a teenagers bedroom. It can be very difficult to find something if you don’t know what layer it’s on. It’s there, you just can’t see it till you turn it on. That line or extraction is just on a layer that is not turned on. It is really easy to think that maybe you didn’t draw that line and it just disappeared (no this is CAD CAM not David Blaine). Always be aware that this is going onto whatever is the active layer. When you are drawing (lines circles etc.) or you are extracting edges. Unfortunately when used wrong it can be very confusing. You can see what a powerful tool this is when used right.
If you just want to see your solid model and nothing else you can click show only on that layer and the model is all you will see. You can put anything on any layer and then display the layers as and when you wish. Ok that said well that’s the principle of having Layers in Edgecam or any CAD system. On the other hand if you wanted to be without the clutter of the dimensions you could remove that sheet. So when you layered them all on top of each other you could see the whole drawing.
For example one sheet could just be the dimensions. This meant that you could have different things on different sheets of tracing paper. The way that you could build up drawings was with the use of see through tracing paper. Layers in Edgecam, when I was a planning engineer at Rolls Royce in 1971, the year they went bust and the government had to take-over, everything was done with a good old fashioned pencil.