Displaying NX CAM tool times

You can store NX CAM tools and their individual time values with their corresponding NC programs. The tools are displayed in the Activities view. Cutting times are shown in seconds in the Duration column.

These activities are stored in an operation of the MENCMachining type.

If you update an operation in NX, Teamcenter updates the CAM tools in Part Planner, including adding or deleting tools.

To pass additional CAM-related time values to the Activities view from NX models, install the PM0PartManufacturing BMIDE template that contains the time definitions with Teamcenter. Some of the CAM-related time values you might want to pass to the Activities view are Positioning Time, Designing Time, Delay Time, Wait Time, and Tool Change Time.

Note

In the preference MPP_ToolActivity_NXCamTime, you can define a single NX time to be passed as a default table column time. You can also add any defined time values to the Activities view. Just right-click the column header, select the preferred column names, and choose Insert column(s).

If MPP_ToolActivity_NXCamTime is not set, the default legacy value of 0 appears in the Activities view table columns.