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How to quickly get started with TopSolid'Cam |
The purpose of this page is not to replace TopSolid'Cam stage but to quickly explain how to access various milling functions in TopSolid'Cam. A more detailed tutorial allows you to better understand these different steps.
There must be a part to mill in your project before using this page. This part can obviously be defined by TopSolid or be recovered. The section Design in the online help can explain how to do this if necessary.
This page describes the four essential stages for performing milling operations.
1. Open a new Cam document
The window below appears when TopSolid7 is launched. It provides access to the opening or allows you to create a document and/or project.
You must create a new milling document upon first launch.
There are three possibilities:
Using the "New Document" Icon in the Menu Bar
Using the "Milling" Icon from the Home Page
Right-click on the part to mill (design) and select the "Milling..." option.
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2. Inserting a part into a Cam document
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This stage is optional if you have used option 3 in step 1 (right-click the part to mill) Open document |
After opening a milling document, the part must be inserted.
In effect, given that the part was modeled in a Design document, you must import it into a Cam document in order to define the milling operations.
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The part is located in the project window (generally to the left of the screen). To insert, drag the part using the mouse ("Drag and Drop").
In the example above, "drag and drop" the Design Support document to the new Cam Support document*.
During this operation, the "Creating the Part to Mill" window opens in which you can create a stock.
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3. Creating Milling Operations
After being loaded into a Cam document, the part can be milled using two different methods.
These two methods are explained earlier in the section Using the Menu or Mouse.
You can use
Subject - Verb
Select the entities that you want to machine, then select a milling function.
With this option, you can select one or more faces using the mouse and indicate which milling to apply.
Verb - Subject
Select a milling function, then indicate to which entities you wish to apply this function.
4. Useful Information and Operations Settings
If information required for validating a command in missing, the software indicates this with an asterisk (
) and grays out the OK button.
Of course, the tool is essential for validating this box.
You can configure the milling in two ways, by using the icon bar, or by modifying the label fields located in the graphic area.
When the milling is validated, the simulation is automatically launched with or without removing the material (
) depending on the option selected in the Operations Manager window.
Using the "ISO" window, you can view the milling operation ISO codes. If the ISO Code does not display, refer to the Window Management topic.
