http://www.solidcam.com/creating_chain_geometries_part_2_en,50007.html
Starting at 3:09 in the above video can your CADCAM system chain like this?
Siemens NX can.
Mastercam X3 MU1 can’t.
http://www.solidcam.com/creating_chain_geometries_part_2_en,50007.html
Starting at 3:09 in the above video can your CADCAM system chain like this?
Siemens NX can.
Mastercam X3 MU1 can’t.
Actually Mastercam has been able to chain like this for years.
The first chain is the same as chaining using Cplane option
The second chain is the same as “Partial Chain”
The last chain is the same as solid chaining.
I suggest you investigate Mastercam’s chaining further – you’re missing out on a lot of functionality at your fingertips!
Comment by joshharnett — April 1, 2009 @ 2:51 am
SolidCAM is detecting the islands and chaining them automatically. The user does not have to manually chain them like you have to do in Mastercam. The only way Mastercam can do this is when you use its horribly inefficient feature recognition.
Comment by jonbanquer — April 1, 2009 @ 3:20 am