Journals: best thing since sliced bread for cam!

[wmalan]

Maybe I'm late to the party but...

After figuring them out a bit more, I found you can easily change just about any cam attribute pretty easily. For those dealing with global changes to hundreds of operations, changing things like engage/retracts, feeds, clearances is so simple now. Being in a position to occasionally make recommendations for cam systems, it's adds a real "wow" factor to the decision. Very nice!

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Bill

 

[cowski]

I never realized how big an impact sliced bread had on CAM!

 

[bcl001]

Hi Bill, would you like to share your experience, you made me curious about the advantages.

Bert

 

[wmalan]

cowski,
Given how backwards the industry can be... sliced bread is still an innovation in some areas.

bcl001,

Lately I've been tasked with reprogramming existing very large airframe parts to the newer revision with many operations (hundreds per part file - many pockets and ribs).

Many times I can keep the existing tool paths but they want to change feeds, engage moves, and corner smoothing, and more. By creating these Journals, I just select a group of operations that need the changes and run the Journal. It goes in an edits all the attributes required. It takes a matter of minutes to edit as opposed to hours to individually open and edit each on. You can quickly edit the Journals on the fly to change attributes as well. A HUGE time saver. It really sets NX apart from "lesser" systems that boast quick tool path code as their strength.

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Bill

 

[markrief]

Bill, thanks for the positive comments.

NX users can see several examples of this in the UGOPEN\SampleNXOpenApplications\.NET\CAM folder.

As one who makes global changes to objects in dozens of template parts, I agree that this is a great time saver. It also assures that I don't miss something ;*)


Mark Rief
Product Manager
Siemens PLM