USER DEFINED TOOLS

[miked64]

Is there a way to use or import curves to define tools in the user defined feature.
Say for example a special form tool that was drawn then revoled to show its 3d shape.
The boxes that need to be defined in the user defined window are basicly the same thing.
I use other software that i can import 2d dxf files or 2d curves that will create a
special tool for me.

Thanks

 

[joycejo]

No - That would be great. Something better that the etch-a-sketch interface that is available would be a huge improvement.

Vericut allows you to import a .dxf file as a tool profile too



John Joyce
N.C. Programming Supervisor
Barnes Aerospace, Windsor CT
NX6.0.5.3

 

[miked64]

John,
I didnt think so, away from UG for a couple of years just making sure, I used the one in
Vericut quite often as well. Even defining the tool in vericut is quite a bit easier as well,
even though it is almost the same idea as UG's defining of a custom tool.
Thanks

 

[NeilMGW]

I agree, HSMworks allows you to model the tool in Solidworks and then add your tracking points etc - all very intuitive.

 

[miked64]

I have brought this up over the years at different ug user groups,I had stopped using UG for a
couple of years, I was just hoping there was an "INHANCEMENT" made in that area.
It is just a pain in the --- to use the way it is now.

 

[markrief]

If you just want the tool for visualization, you can use a part file for the display, along with a parametric tool for the processors.

If you want the tool for generating planar profile operation tool paths, then you must define the profile in the tool dialog. Once done, this tool can be reused as a template or with copy/paste, or exported to the tool library. Note there are samples of chamfer and corner rounding mills in the library, which may serve as good starting points for similar tools.

How many different user defined tools to you use?
How often do you create a new one?

Mark Rief
Product Manager
Siemens PLM

 

[joycejo]

Mark,

I use "tools" that are actually grinding wheels. I have used the template option and don't have to create them on the fly as much as I had in the past.
Just wish I could use them for other operations.




John Joyce
N.C. Programming Supervisor
Barnes Aerospace, Windsor CT
NX6.0.5.3

 

[bcl001]

Hi everyone, we use user-defined tools a lot. We are a extrusion-die shop. When will it be possible to attach feeds/speeds by the machining data library to these kind of tools. It is not supported yet. We can store them in the library, give it numbers anyway, but we can not attach feeds/speeds to the tool. So every drag of an operation to another user-defined tool needs a manual feeds/speeds adjustment.

Hopefully Siemens will improve this way of "not-working". Bert

 

[markrief]

I just put feeds and speeds on a user defined milling tool in the library, and it works fine.
You need to do this on the "Tool Machining Data" page when you edit the machining data library.
Then retrieve the tool fronm the library, use it an operation, and press "Set Machining Data" in the feeds and speeds dialog.

Mark Rief
Product Manager
Siemens PLM

 

[bcl001]

Hi Mark, if possible I would like to send you an E-mail, where Siemens confirms that this is not possible.
Maybe you can contact each other and let me know how to proceed.

Please confirm where I should sent the e-mail.

Thanks, Bert

 

[markrief]

Bert,
Please log a call with GTAC and they will take care of it. Ask them to talk to me if they have any doubts about the behavior.

Mark Rief
Product Manager
Siemens PLM

 

[bcl001]

Hi Mark, is it also working if Ihave a predefined toolcarrier, and I drag the operation to the user-defined tool?
I also contacted Andreas Bald, from Siemens, about this issue, giving him your name, would be nice if you contact him also.

Thanks, is important issue for us. Bert

 

[markrief]

OOTB you need to press the Set Maching Data button to pick up the values from the new tool.

If you always want this to happen, turn on the customer default to always set machining data.

Mark Rief
Product Manager
Siemens PLM