Prismatic Machining
(PG1) - P1, (PMG, MPM) - P2

General Issues

Probing The “Cycle OFF” NC Instruction has been specialized for axial, probing, and for lathe (machining operations generate respectively NC_AXIAL_CYCLE_OFF, NC_PROBING_CYCLE_OFF and NC_LATHE_CYCLE_OFF, by default they are all associated to CYCLE/OFF in the PPTable). It allows you to define a specific CYCLE OFF in the PPTable, for instance for Probing.

Important: If you have redefined the NC_CYCLE_OFF in the current PPTable, you must redefine the NC_AXIAL_CYCLE_OFF, NC_LATHE_CYCLE_OFF and NC_PROBING_CYCLE_OFF accordingly in the PPTable to avoid any behavior change.

Intermediate Stock Management For a given machining operation, it is now possible to enable/disable the intermediate stock output computation, to enable/disable the use of the input intermediate stock in the toolpath computation. It brings flexibility and allows you to optimize your process by inhibiting the intermediate stock computation, for instance when you known it is not relevant for subsequent operations.

On top of this new option, the performance of the intermediate stock management has been largely improved.

Open Issues

None  

Documentation

Prismatic Machining Area You can pre-highlight  Prismatic Machining Areas in the 3D viewer by moving the cursor on the feature in the Manufacturing View:
  • Highlight when the guiding contour is selected as faces:
  • Highlight when the guiding contour is selected as Edges:

You can request a permanent representation of Prismatic Machining Areas and Machinable Axial Features:

  • At recognition of the features, the permanent representation is not visible.
  • Select one or several features in the Manufacting View, and select Hide/Show in their contextual menu to show or hide their permanent representation.
  • Alternatively, right-click a feature in the 3D viewer and select Hide/Show in the contextual menu.
  • Permanent representations of Machinable Axial features:
  • Permanent representations of Prismatic Machining Area features
  • Click its permanent representation directly in the 3D viewer to select a Prismatic Machining Area or a Machinable Axial feature .
  • In axial machining operations, click No point in the Geometry tab to select a Machinable Axial feature  from its permanent representation in the 3D viewer:
  • In Pocketing and Profile Contouring operations, click the arrow on the right of the Feature to select a Prismatic Machining Area from its permanent representation in the 3D viewer:
  • When creating a Prismatic Machining Area manually, you must select a guiding element and a bottom to enable the pre-highlight and the permanent representation of the feature.