Groove / Parting

Icon Access:

Location: Turning \ Grooving

Development:

End

The grooving feature allows you to complete one or more inner or outer, cylindrical, or frontal grooves on a given part.

The parting feature allows bar machining, cutting up the part at the end of all milling operations.

Operation

To create grooves, they must be completely defined, meaning that the solid that represents the part to make includes the groove definition. These shapes are automatically recognized, provided that they follow the following rules:

with or without a right or left shoulder.
to have or not have tilted flanks.
to have or not have symmetric chamfers or radius at the diameter or supporting face level.
to have or not have symmetric groove bottom radius.

To complete parting, TopSolid'Cam specifies the face that defines the end of the part (the smallest Z side), applies the reserve specified by the user (for possible refinishing), and completes the parting cycle based on the current width of the tool.

Operation

From the Turning menu or using the mouse (by selecting or not selecting a face with the right mouse button), select the "Groove..." menu.

A toolbar appears on the left of the screen, along with a label in the graphic area.

You can then modify values by

By selecting the value to modify in the label. The label is the table shown in the image in the top right corner. All label values are fields available from one of the icons in the left section. These values are placed on the label for quicker access.

By selecting the values in the graphic area or by pulling the arrows. As with the values of the labels, these fields are present in one of the left section icons. These values are placed in the graphic area for quicker access.

By opening one of the left section icons.

	Select Favorite Instead of modifying n values, this option allows you to restore (or save) values that have already been entered.
	Select the tool to use By default, if the previous operation tool can be used, it is reused for this operation (the name of the tool appears in the graphic area next to ) If the previous tool is not suitable or if this is the first operation, you must select a tool to validate the operation ()
	Define Cutting Conditions for Operation Use this icon to modify the cutting conditions of the current operation.
	Define or Add Geometries to Machine By first selecting the geometry and calling this function with a right click of the mouse, this geometry is automatically added. So it is not necessary to access this icon to do this. Define Milling Boundaries You can also apply trims (XYZ or contour) to the current operation.
	Define All Milling Settings Each milling has specific settings. Use this icon to access all settings (such as stocks to leave, altitudes, plunge modes, milling modes, etc.)
	Define ISO File Settings Use this icon to define which comment to use for the ISO code or to decide which inclined plane matrices to use.
	Define colinear axis This icon is available only if the current machine has colinear axis.With this icon it will then be possible to choose the axis drives by the operation.We also can choose the Z value of the fix axis.
	Define Operation Properties Use this icon to define whether you would like to update the stock or calculate the result later.
	Confirm To confirm the current operation, pressing this icon to right-click outside the window and use the "OK" menu
	Cancel If you wish to cancel the operation, click this icon.
	Preview Display or hide the machining area. When this is hidden, this area is not calculated, and response times improve.
	Show Label Allows you to display or hide the graphic area label.
	Editing Update Each time a setting is changed (such as the axial depth), all calculations for updating the hatching area and the trajectory are triggered. The setting change may take a few moments. In several cases, settings must be modified before updating the calculations. For this, press this icon. In the case, the hatching area and trajectory (for example) are not recalculated before pressing this icon again.