plate profile

[rotorcam]

I am trying to cut out a part from a 4mm thick sheet. The profile feature is removing all of the material from the part out, whereas, I just want to just cut out the part from the plate. Any pointers? Thanks.

 

[peterbrown77]

I assume you're talking about the Material Removal Feature. You will have to manually create it.

 

[rotorcam]

I am trying to cut out the profile of the part via expert-machinist (I'm new to Pro/NC), but it is removing all of the material. This part is getting cut out of a 4mm thick sheet and it doesn't make sense in this context to remove all non-part sheet (unlike billet). If i'm interpreting the features correctly, it seems the profile is just an "inverse" thru-pocket....

I think I have what I need by using free-milling feature.

 

[peterbrown77]

Sorry, I'm not an Expert Machinist expert!

 

[azskymaster]

you can reduce the size of your workpiece to just larger than what you want to remove.

 

[dbrainsky]

In expert create a profile feature of the walls. Then machine it. Or better yet switch into the ProNc mode using Applications Manufacturing and cut it using either profile ncsequence or trajectory, or vol ncsequence scan_type profile_only.