NX CAM Miling
- NX CAM software provides comprehensive CNC programming
Capabilities for various jobs – from 2.5-axis milling and turning to high-speed machining and multi-axis milling and robotic operations. This advanced software solution, developed by Siemens Digital Industries Software, is designed to meet the complex needs of modern manufacturing environments. It supports basic and advanced milling operations, allowing for precise machining of simple to highly intricate part geometries. High-speed machining optimises toolpaths to enhance surface finish and reduce machining time, while multi-axis milling capabilities ensure efficient tool access and superior part quality. The software’s integration with robotic systems facilitates automated machining processes, increasing flexibility and handling challenging parts that traditional CNC machines may struggle with. With feature-based machining automating standard programming tasks and seamless integration with NX CAD for data consistency, NX CAM enhances productivity, accuracy, and cost-efficiency, making it an indispensable tool in professional manufacturing settings.
- Core Features and Capabilities
- 2.5 Axis Milling
The NX™ CAM 2.5 Axis Milling Add-on enhances milling and drilling with flexible MCS for various tool axis orientations, multi-stage advanced volume-based, feature-based, and solids-based machining, and high-speed machining for improved CNC efficiency. Additional features include boundary cutting, hole making, adaptive milling, rest machining, probing cycles, and Z-level finishing. It automates prismatic part programming, creates complete machining processes, maximises CNC machine investments, and simplifies programming for multiple parts and fixtures. The NX™ CAM 2.5 Axis Milling Add-on ensures streamlined and efficient manufacturing workflows by simplifying programming for multiple parts and fixtures. It is an essential tool for optimising CNC operations in professional manufacturing environments.
- 3 - Axis Milling
The NX™ CAM 3-Axis Milling software provides advanced fixed-axis cutting capabilities for complex surfaces. It enhances your ability to achieve exceptionally smooth toolpath results, especially in steep areas, by allowing you to specify a projection vector that is different from the tool axis. This flexibility enables the generation of the smoothest raster (zig-zag) cuts, incorporating special stepover moves and optimised point distribution, ensuring high feed rates and superior surface finishes. These features collectively maintain operational efficiency and quality, making the NX™ CAM 3-Axis Milling software essential for achieving meticulous and efficient milling operations in professional manufacturing settings.
- Multi-Axis Milling
NX CAM combines milling and turning for seamless transitions between operations within a single setup. It provides comprehensive support for various complex machines, enabling manufacturers to tackle machining challenges with precision and efficiency. It supports Mill-Turn Centers, TurnMill Machines, multi-tasking machines, Swiss-type lathes, and hybrid additive manufacturing machines. Integrating milling and turning operations within a single environment streamlines the workflow and reduces setup times and potential errors, significantly boosting overall productivity and part quality.
- Additive Manufacturing/ Multi-Axis Deposition
The Multi-Axis Deposition feature in NX CAM revolutionises additive manufacturing by simultaneously enabling material deposition from multiple axes. This feature enhances precision, complexity, and efficiency, reducing the need for support structures and streamlining the manufacturing process.
Integrated seamlessly into Siemens’ NX software suite, it has versatile applications across aerospace, automotive, healthcare, and consumer goods industries. Overall, NX CAM’s Multi-Axis Deposition empowers manufacturers to create intricate components precisely and efficiently. By leveraging multi-axis deposition, manufacturers can achieve greater design freedom, produce complex components with enhanced performance characteristics, and streamline production workflows. NX CAM’s Additive Manufacturing capabilities foster innovation, improve efficiency, and reduce lead times, making it an essential tool for modern manufacturing environments.
- Robot Machining
NX CAM Robotics Programming software streamlines industrial robots’ design, simulation, validation, optimisation, and offline programming for machining tasks. This solution enhances the efficiency and quality of high-precision, multi-axis robotic operations. Leveraging the intuitive NX software 3D environment, it combines CNC programming simplicity with the capability to accurately create, control, and simulate complex robotic machining processes. With associative updates, a core feature of NX, accommodating change orders becomes effortless as robotic programming can be easily refreshed to reflect design changes.
- On Machine Probing
The NX CAM On-Machine Probing module provides advanced measurement technology to optimise manufacturing processes and improve workpiece quality. It allows for monitoring critical machine and process parameters, detecting process variations, and adjusting machining parameters using NX CAM. The module also enables the creation of on-machine probing cycles for milling and turning, generation and visualisation of probing paths, the output of NC code using an integrated postprocessor, simulation of the process using the digital twin of the part, probe, and machine tool, and detection of process variations for adjusting machining parameters.
- CMM Inspection Programming
NX™ software’s CMM Inspection Programming provides a state-of-the-art solution for offline programming that reduces programming time, frees up expensive CMM resources, and ensures fast responses to design changes. The included data analysis brings measured data back into the programming environment for comparison and study. NX CMM Inspection Programming helps to streamline the entire CMM inspection program development and measurements analysis by blending industry knowledge and best practices with process automation.
- Multi Blade/Turbo Machinery
The NX™ software’s Turbomachinery Milling simplifies NC programming for machining complex 5-axis rotational parts such as blisks and impellers. It offers specific blade/blisk machining functions, including reducing programming effort, machining single or multiple splitters, performing simultaneous 5-axis roughing, and achieving hub, blade, and splitter finishing. Additionally, NX Turbomachinery Milling supports the creation of optimised toolpaths that enhance machining efficiency and reduce cycle times. By providing these robust and specialised functions, NX Turbomachinery Milling facilitates the production of high-precision components required in the aerospace, energy, and automotive industries. Its comprehensive approach to 5-axis machining not only simplifies the programming process but also ensures the highest levels of performance and quality in the finished products, making it an indispensable tool for manufacturers of turbomachinery components.
- Wire EDM
The NX™ CAM Wire EDM Advanced add-on software provides comprehensive capabilities for programming wire electrical discharge machines (EDM), including cutting 2- and 4-axis geometry configurations. It offers benefits such as programming any standard wire EDM equipment, generating optimised wire EDM operations, accelerating programming using feature-based automation, and ensuring efficient and safe wire EDM machining. The features include direct access to machine tool technology databases, 2- and 4-axis machining using solids, surfaces, or curves, collar machining, pocketing completely or partially, feature-based machining, and attended and unattended machining strategies.
- Hole Making
The NX CAM Hole making provides various hole-making functions such as spot drill, drill, ream bore and tap. You can use deep drill, peck drill and special boring cycles. User-defined cycles provide any needed hole-making capability. Efficient traverses minimise lifts while accounting for all part and fixture geometry. Special multi-axis filtering automatically switches MCS for nonparallel hole selections. NX CAM provides several special milling processes for milling holes and bosses. With these cutting options, you can mill holes into solid material or clean up holes and bosses in near-net shape components. The threads can be milled internally or externally.
- Machining setup instruction
NX™ CAM Machining Setup Instruction unleashes the power of NX Open in combination with the NX CAM application to create setup instructions for the shopfloor and documentation easily. The application is free to use for any NX CAM customer. The current release is a preliminary version signed with the NX2306 series. The setup sheet includes all the information about the machining process. Its consistent and categorised design facilitates preserving the required information in one place, which is perfectly readable even in a workshop environment.
- Feature-Based Machining ( FBM )
Feature-based machining (FBM) in NX™ CAM is a technology that automates recognising machinable features on a part model and generating the corresponding tool paths for machining. It significantly reduces programming time by automatically identifying features such as holes, pockets, and slots and then applying predefined machining strategies to these features. It ensures consistent and efficient machining operations, enhancing productivity and accuracy in manufacturing processes
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