Creating a Plunge Milling Operation by Offset

You can create a Plunge Milling operation by offset. This operation takes into account the geometrical environment and thus accepts the definition of both the part and the rough stock. If the rough stock is not defined, the operation uses the rework technology to take into account the shape of the stock at the beginning of the operation.

Related Topics
Plunge Milling
Creating a Plunge Milling Operation with Points
Dealing with Invalid Faces

  1. Activate the Manufacturing Program and click Plunge Milling in the Prismatic Machining Operation toolbar.

    An Plunge Milling entity is added to the Manufacturing Program. The Plunge Milling dialog box opens at the Geometry tab . This tab includes a sensitive icon to help you specify the geometry. Areas of the icon are colored red indicating that this geometry is required.

  2. Still in the Geometry tab.

    See Selecting Geometry

    1. Click the red area representing the part in the sensitive icon and select the part in the authoring window. Double-click anywhere in the authoring window to confirm your selection and redisplay the dialog box.



    2. Click the red area representing the rough stock in the sensitive icon and select the rough-stock as shown below.



  3. Select the Strategy tab .

    1. Select By Offset as the Grid type.

      The dialog box changes to this:

    2. Click the red curve in the sensitive icon and select a contour in the authoring window.



  4. Go to the Tool tab to select a tool.

    See Specifying a Tool Element in a Machining Operation

    It can be:

    • a center cutting plunger
    • a side plunging milling cutter

  5. Select the Feeds and Speeds tab to specify the feedrates and spindle speeds for the operation.

  6. Go to the Macros tab to specify the desired transition paths.

  7. Click Tool Path Replay to check the validity of the operation.

    See Replaying the Tool Path


    • The tool path is computed.
    • A progress indicator is displayed.
    • You can cancel the tool path computation at any moment before 100% completion.


  8. Click OK in the Plunge milling.1 dialog box, and OK in the main dialog box to validate and exit the dialog box.

  9. Create a new plunging by offset operation, with the following contour:

  10. Click Tool Path Replay

    The tool path is displayed.

  11. Go to the Grid tab and increase Contour Number to 6. Click Tool Path Replay .

    The tool path is displayed.

    Note: If you play the Video from last save result, you see:

  12. Go to the Grid tab and decrease the Finished cutting progress value to 1mm. Click Tool Path Replay and then play the Video from last save result again.

    The results is:

  13. Click OK in the Plunge milling.1 dialog box, and OK in the main dialog box to validate and exit the dialog box.