learn turning

What's featurecam?

Featurecam is CAM software from delcam that have many function such as 2D machining, 3D machining, Turn, Mill/ Turn, Wirecut.

From that many feature from featurecam, we now can learn turning. What's turn? Turning is the machining process of hard material or soft material with lathe machine. There is 3 type of machine, that is manual machine, NC machine, and CNC machine.

the turn machine component:

a. chuck : component to clamp the workpiece. this is not like table as milling machine because this part will turn at the main spindle.

b. live centre : component to clamp work piece at tail stock, this is to get long part to be cutting was centre as well.

c. steady rest : component to make long part have a precission cilyndrical. that's mean long part doesn't blend at the midle.

d. turret : component to clamp the turning tools. depend on machine type, there is 12 slot – 16 slot. there is upper and lower turret, also some have milling option.

e. cutting tools: tools to cut material to make the shape that we wanted.

how abaut the relation abaut this software and the machine??

this is the benefit of using the software.... the idea is when we whant to make a complex shape of turn part, it is very difficult. we must calculate the point of the shape otherwise we design firts at cad software such as autocad to get the point. and then we enter the point to the machine. ;

ups.. it is possible to have an error???

yes..

to solve this problem we can input our design from major software like autocad, solid works, etc to this software.. featurecam will calculate the turning process, choosing cutting tools, cutting condition automaticly. also check the undercut and the gouging for the machining safety.

you don't need to input the point of nc code, because this nc from featurecam can loaded into machine by cable connection or usb data. so no human error in this case..

featurecam also save your time. some of case you may run the machine in dry run mode to ensure the safety of maching process. featurecam has gouging and collision checking to make sure your programming was right. it means that not only save from programming time but also your machining process. so you can increase your productifity and save your money.