Stock Method
1. Double click Z Level1 in the Operation tree.
2. The Operation Parameters dialog is displayed. Click on the Advanced tab. In the
Automatic contain area group box, notice that the Method is set to Stock.
When you use this method, the XY shape of the contain area is based on the original stock shape. If the stock shape is defined from a sketch and the current Setup is normal to the sketch, the contain area will be the same as the sketch. Otherwise, the contain area will be based on the minimum XY
bounding box of the stock.
3. Click OK to close the Operation Parameters dialog.
4. Click Yes if CAMWorks displays a warning message asking if you want to regenerate the toolpaths else right click the
Z Level1 operation in the tree and select
Generate Toolpath from the shortcut menu. OR
Click on the Generate Toolpath button
on the CAMWorks Command Manager.
5. In the FeatureManager design tree, position the pointer over the Stock sketch item. The rectangular colored sketch that is displayed represents the stock shape.
Bounding Box Method
1. Double click Z Level1 in the Operation tree.
2. The Operation Parameters dialog is displayed. Click on the Advanced tab. In the
Automatic contain area group box, notice that the Method is set to Bounding Box.
With this method, the XY shape of the contain area is based on the minimum XY bounding box of the faces in the Multi Surface feature. The bounding box is based only on the Faces to Cut in the Multi Surface feature.
3. Click OK to close the Operation Parameters dialog.
4. Click Yes if CAMWorks displays a warning message asking if you want to regenerate the toolpaths else right click the
Z Level1 operation in the tree and select Generate Toolpath from the shortcut
menu. OR
Click on the Generate Toolpath button on the CAMWorks Command Manager.
5. In the FeatureManager design tree, position the pointer over the Bounding
Box sketch item.
The rectangular sketch that is displayed represents the bounding box.
Outer Silhouette Method
1. Double click Z Level1 in the Operation tree.
2. The Operation Parameters dialog is displayed. Click on the Advanced tab. In the
Automatic contain area group box, notice that the Method is set to Outer Silhouette.
With this method, the XY shape of the contain area is based only on an outer XY silhouette of the Faces to Cut in the Multi Surface feature.
3. Click OK to close the Operation Parameters dialog.
4. Click Yes if CAMWorks displays a warning message asking if you want to regenerate the toolpaths else right click the Z Level1 operation in the tree and select Generate Toolpath from the shortcut menu.
OR
Click on the Generate Toolpath button on the CAMWorks Command Manager.
5. In the FeatureManager design tree, position the pointer over the Outer Silhouette sketch item.
The sketch that is displayed on the perimeter of the top face represents the outer silhouette.
All Silhouettes Method
1. Double click Z Level1 in the Operation tree.
2. The Operation Parameters dialog is displayed. Click on the Advanced tab. In the
Automatic contain area group box, notice that the Method is set to All Silhouettes.
With this method, the XY shape of the contain area is based on an XY silhouette of Faces to Cut in the Multi Surface feature. The silhouette will include the outer shape of the faces as well as any internal shape based on through features. The internal silhouette areas will be treated
automatically as avoid areas. 3. Click OK to close the Operation
Parameters dialog. 4. Click Yes if CAMWorks
displays a warning message asking if you want to regenerate the toolpaths else right click the
Z Level1 operation in the tree
and select Generate Toolpath from the shortcut menu.
5. In the Feature Manager design tree, position the pointer over the All Silhouettes sketch item.
The sketch that displays represents the outer silhouette of the Selected Faces in the Multi Surface feature and the internal silhouette for the through feature.
Automatic Contain Area set to ‘Outer Silhouette’
Automatic Contain Area set to ‘All Silhouettes’
Internal Silhouette for the through feature
Chapter 5 Learning 2 Axis Turn
This chapter provides an opportunity to learn CAMWorks 2 Axis Turn through a step by step hands-on tour of the features and functions.
The tutorials in this chapter are intended to show you how to use CAMWorks and may not correspond to actual machining practices.
The exercise parts are installed when you install CAMWorks and are in the \Examples\Turn folder. This folder is inside the CAMWorks data folder (e.g.,
\CAMWorksData\CAMWorks201x\Examples\Turn).
IMPORTANT! CAMWorks uses a set of knowledge-based rules to assign machining
operations to features. The Technology Database contains the data for the machining process plans and can be customized for your facility's machining methodology. When you do these exercises, your results may not be exactly the same as described in the steps and illustrated in the figures. This is because the machining sequences and operations data in your Technology Database may be different from the database used to produce the documentation.