Migrating to an all-new CAM software is a big investment, and can be a daunting prospect for a working machine shop that needs to keep machines running. In the second part of this case study, we sat down with our friends and clients at Machinists Inc. to discuss challenges overcome in transitioning to Siemens NX for manufacturing.

 Machinists Inc is a job shop located in South Seattle that serves the maritime, aerospace, research, and transportation industries. After two years of writing post processors with their former CAM software, it became clear they needed a better solution that could keep up with the investments they were making in their equipment, necessitating the search for a new CAM programming platform.

In this tutorial video we take a look at a quick tip for NX CAM and NX 1899. In NX 1899 by default, the operation dialogue now displays in an Explorer-style layout. It's very similar to what was in previous versions of NX, but now there are several groups and the groups are very similar to previous versions with some differences.

In this webinar, we look at keeping the ‘rapid’ in your rapid prototyping. By looking at some crucial additive manufacturing tips & tricks, we show how to boost your key business advantages by embracing or improving additive manufacturing in your operations, whether you’re just getting started or well down the road of 3DP.

In this video, our NX CAM engineer discusses updates in NX CAM continuous release 1872, with a focus on changes in Fundamentals, Milling, Integrated Simulation and Verification (ISV), Postprocessing, and Feature-based Machining.

In this video we demonstrate how to set up your blank geometry so that your IPW will look at your OP1 setup file. We are going to set up our OP1 blank just as we would normally using part stock geometry. In this case it is a component. The key difference will be to set up your IPW position from positioning type as from part two CSYS. This will allow an anchoring point for your IPW and following operations.

Whether you’re a job-shop working with neutral CAD data (STEP, IGES, Parasolid, PDF, etc.) or your company is vertically integrated with design and manufacturing in-house, you need to hold the part in place with an easy to use, configurable fixture or jig. Designing custom fixtures and jigs for each new job can be time-consuming, tedious, and, most importantly, costly. 

In this demonstration, we showcase some fixture-building techniques using CAD tools available in Siemens CAM software packages.

Our NX CAM guru Matt Reynolds recently provided support to a customer with a drilling error that they were facing. Matt found the issue, identified the problem, and came to a resolution. See the answer here.

In this video we cover the master model technique and how the technique can be used in the manufacturing context. The technique can save time in programming and simplify file management. We'll show specific examples of how we use this technique here at Applied CAx to our advantage.

In this video, we'll show you how to update your tool library from older versions of NX. We’ll start with no tools and import your previous library.

Once your conversion is complete your new tool library will be updated with your previous tool set.