Step 2 - Opening a Part
- Kevin Strider (Unlicensed)
This page contains Step 2 of the ‘Getting Started with CAM Assist' tutorial. This step covers how to open a part for use with CAM Assist.
You must have installed CAM Assist before starting this step (see Step 1 - Installing CAM Assist).
You have two choices for the source of your part:
Your own part - open it as usual in Siemens NX
You can skip the rest of this step and continue from Step 3 - CAM Assist ribbon (just replace the ‘Demo’ part with your own, where relevant).
A CloudNC ‘Demo’ part
See Opening a Demo part, below.
As long as your part has at least one setup defined, you can use it with CAM Assist.
Before you can use CAM Assist, the part that you plan to use must consist of at least one workpiece with the model and blank in Siemens NX:
CAM Assist can support up to 10 workpiece setups in your model/part
CAM Assist will program them all simultaneously.
CAM Assist supports blanks (see Naming Blanks) defined in NX as geometry, bounding cylinder, bounding body, and with associated IPW.
Opening a ‘Demo’ part
To open one of CloudNC’s ‘Demo’ parts, take the following steps:
Open the ‘CAM Assist menu’:
This shows the CAM Assist ribbon.
At this step, the ribbon contains just one option, ‘Open a Demo Part’.
Click Open a Demo Part.
Siemens NX opens a new tab headed ‘Open Demo Part’ (see the image to the right).
Select one of the Demo parts.
Click OK.
Siemens NX opens the part in its own tab (for example, 'Demo Part 1.prt').
The content of the CAM Assist Ribbon changes (see Step 3 - CAM Assist Ribbon).
What next?
The ‘Getting Started with CAM Assist' tutorial continues with Step 3 - CAM Assist Ribbon.