NX CAM Feature-Based Machining

• Find the features of your workpiece.  
  • Use the “Machining Feature Navigator” to find all features along the Z vector or axis. 
  • This command will find all features the program can recognize, displaying them in red. 
• Group the features. 
  • Highlight all features in the Machining Feature Navigator, then “Group” the features. 
  • In the “Geometry View,” you can see all the features that are grouped together as like features—all the features that have the same variables. 
• Create feature processes and operations. 
  • Select all features and create feature processes from the Machining Feature Navigator.  
  • In this video, Tony creates all milling and drilling operations. 
  • NX CAM will search the library to determine all the associated it tools it needs to drill or mill the defined features. Then, it will create operations associated with them. 
  • In the “Operation Navigator,” you can see the operations of each sub program. 
• Generate tool paths. 
  • Start with the program parent when you create a tool path. 
  • After generating the tool path, you can see a list of all tools used and verify that the tool paths and operations were created correctly. 

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