Create operations

A planner creates NCMachining operations in Part Planner for each CAM setup required for a machining operation. When NX CAM Integration is started, the machining operations that were defined by the planner display as setups within the NX Manufacturing application for the NC programmer to choose from.

Procedure

1. In NX, create your own setup. The NCMachining operation uses the setup template to position the workpiece in the correct location in an assembly that includes all of the components that were saved in the template. In addition, the template can include NX CAM objects such as tools, coordinate systems, and program groups pre-set for the generation of CAM tool paths.

2. In Part Planner, open the geometry part (item) in the structure view.

3. Create a new process.

4. Associate the product as target for the process.

5. Create operations under the new process. Any operation that you want to open in NX CAM must be of the NCMachining type or of a type you have specified to be supported in NX CAM.

6. (Optional) Add resources (tools, machines or fixtures) to the machining operations using the Classification Search Dialog. The process resembles the following:

53684/A – Process_for_Product

Process

Occurrence Type

└ 53686/A – OP10

└ 53687/A – OP20

└ 53688/A – OP30

└ ugt0101_001/A

└ ugt0202_001/A

└ ugt0212_001/A

└ 53689/A – OP40

└ 53690/A – OP50

OP

OP

NCMachining

Item

Item

Item

OP

NCMachining

METool

METool

METool

These resources have an METool occurrence type. You can list the occurrence types by adding the Occurrence Type property to your column list.