Port Machining
Adding a Port Machining Operation
Overview
SolidCAM provides you with the Port Machining operation. The Port machining is used to create either a roughing or finishing tool path for port type geometries. This operation enables you to reach the full area with a single tool path, machining from the top and the bottom. The tool path is calculated on the triangle mesh elements. |
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Adding a Port Machining Operation
In SolidCAM Manager, right-click the Operations header and choose Add Milling Operation > Port Machining menu to add a Port Machining operation to your CAM-Part.
You can also click the Multiaxis > Port Machining icon on the SolidCAM toolbar.
Parameter pages
The parameters of the Port Machining operation are divided into a number of subgroups. The subgroups are displayed in a tree format on the left side of the Operation dialog box. When you click a subgroup name in the tree, the parameters of the selected subgroup appear on the right side of the dialog box.
CoordSys
The Coordsys page of the Port Machining dialog box is similar to the Coordsys page of other Sim 5-axis Milling operations.
Machine control
The Machine control page of the Port Machining dialog box is similar to the Machine control page of other Sim 5-Axis Milling operations.
Misc. parameters
The Misc. parameters page of the Port Machining dialog box is similar to the Misc. parameters page of Multiaxis Machining operation.