Overview

Welcome to the NC Manufacturing Infrastructure.

The NC Manufacturing Infrastructure User's Guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the NC Manufacturing Infrastructure.

NC Manufacturing Infrastructure in a Nutshell

Welcome to NC Manufacturing Infrastructure, which enables easy validation of machining processes and analysis of the accuracy of machined parts. It enables easy validation of machining processes and analysis of the accuracy of machined parts.

NC Manufacturing Infrastructure helps toanalyze the accuracy of machined parts by detecting gouge and remaining material. These results are displayed in a graphical form with the innovative use of color contours on the machined part. Tools to analyze machined parts geometrically are also provided.

NC Manufacturing Infrastructure is the platform that enables you to define and manage NC programs dedicated to machining parts designed in 3D wireframe or solids geometry using 2.5 to 5-axis machining techniques.

It offers an easy-to-use and easy-to-learn graphic user interface that makes it suitable for shop floor-oriented use. Moreover, its leading edge technologies together with a tight integration with design methodologies and the digital manufacturing environment, fully satisfy the requirements of office programming. NC Manufacturing is a unique solution that reconciliates office and shop floor activities. It provides tight interaction between tool path generation, simulation (material removal) and edition.

An integrated Post Processor engine allows the product to cover the whole manufacturing process from tool trajectory (APT source or Clfile) to NC data.

NC Manufacturing Infrastructure offers the following main functions:


  • Common platform for 2.5 to 5-axis axis machining capabilities.
  • Management of tools and tool catalogs.
  • Flexible management of the manufacturing program with intuitive and easy-to-learn user interface based on graphic dialog boxes.
  • Tight interaction between tool path definition, verification, and generation.
  • Knowledgeware customization facilities through f(x) formula and Edit search facilities.
  • Seamless NC data generation thanks to an integrated Post Processor Access solution.
  • High associative level of the manufacturing program ensures productive design change management thanks to the integration with CATIA modeling capabilities.
  • Based on the Process Product Resources (PPR) model, the manufacturing applications are integrated with Digital Process for Manufacturing (DPM).

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 6 concepts such as document windows, standard, and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 6 products. It also describes the general layout of Version 6 and the interoperability between workbenches.

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step user tasks, which cover all product functionalities.

The Reference Information section provides useful complementary information. The Interface Description section, which describes the commands that are common to the products built on the NC Manufacturing Infrastructure, and the Accessing and Customizing Settings section, which explains how to customize settings, will also certainly prove useful.