In the Target section of the Turning Part Data dialog box, enables you to choose Envelope or Section to be generated during the Target model definition.
During the Target Model definition, SolidCAM creates a new sketch in the CAM component of the SolidCAM Part Assembly. This sketch, called Envelope, contains the geometry that is automatically generated by the Envelope function of SolidCAM. This function creates the envelope line of the specified solid bodies. Consider the revolution body surrounding the specified solid bodies. The section of this revolution body by ZX-plane of the Turning Machine CoordSys is the envelope; this envelope is a profile of the part that has to be turned in order to create the model geometry.
The Envelope takes into account all the external model faces as well as the internal faces. The geometry created by the Envelope function can be used for the Geometry definition in SolidCAM Operations.
In addition to Envelope, SolidCAM enables you to generate a sketch containing a Section of the Target model by the ZX plane. The Section sketch will be created in the CAM component of the SolidCAM Part Assembly.
