See how to turn SOLIDWORKS designs into ready-to-manufacture instructions for computer numerical control (CNC) machines with the SOLIDWORKS CAM add-in.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- From design to manufacture with SOLIDWORKS CAM
- Quick start walkthrough
- The CAM feature tree and CAM Toolbar
- Define machine parameters
- Define available tools
- Define controller parameters
- Define stock
- Automatic feature recognition
- Interactive feature recognition
- Generate operation plan
- Generate toolpath
- Simulate toolpath
- Post process toolpath
- Output NC code
- Beyond the basics
- Tool selection
- Tool crib
- Machine definition and post processor
- Defining the stock
- Defining the stock from a sketch
- Defining avoid areas with fixtures
- Setting feature types
- Setting feature strategy
- Rebuilding features
- Adding and deleting features
- Reorganizing features
- Suppressing features
- Inserting features
- Combining features
- Generating operation plans
- Changing feature strategies
- Adjusting operation parameters
- Defining avoid areas in operation plan
- Combining operations
- Inserting and deleting operations
- Sorting and reorganizing operations
- Generating toolpaths
- Simulating toolpaths
- Customizing toolpaths
- Post-processing toolpaths
- Next steps
Taught by
Kipp Bradford
