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 Finish operations

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Menu: Milling | 3D operation | Finish operations

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Purpose

How to use

The finishing operations

Purpose

All these finishing function take all the surfaces of the part for the calculation.  Nevertheless, the user can limit the machining areas in order to only perform  machining operations that are absolutely necessary and/or to obtain maximum use of the various calculation algorithms.  

How to use

  1. Select the menu "Milling | 3D operation | Finish operations" or click on the icon.

  2. If there are several parts, select the part to be machined.

  3. Select the tool (or change tool) which can be used for the machining operation.

  4. Specify the different parameters in the tab dialogue box which appears.

  5. Enter the comment which appears on the machine block listing meant for the NC operator. This comment will also appear when the user wishes to take a look at or modify an operation, using the Operation/ Operations Manager function.

  6. Eventually, enter a codified remark which will be interpreted by the post-processor, in a specific manner predefined by the user and the post-processor redactor.

  7. Validate entries made into the dialogue box by clicking on OK

The finish operations

Z level

 Machine in constant Z level

Parallel plane

 Machine with parallel planes

Constant scallop

Machine with constant scallop height

  

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