Practice exercise

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This is a practice exercise video solution.

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For this practice, we're going to start with the design bow - PE.

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We already have a single setup and a couple operations to rough and clear the top side of the part, and now we need to create a secondary setup.

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We're going to rotate the part around and make sure our coordinate system is pointing in the right direction.

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Z is going to be pointing up with why, but we need to flip it to make sure it's in the correct orientation for our geometry.

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The next thing we need to identify is the location that the coordinate system will be.

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In this instance, I'm going to leave it at the center of the top of the park.

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In the stock, we want to take a look at the stock modes.

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Right now we have a relative size box, we have fixed size and so on, and we also have a from solid.

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In this case, we will be taking a look at machining what's left over from the first operation.

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But in order to do that, I'm going to use a relative size box with no stock offsets.

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The next thing that we need to do is create some operations to remove material, and I'm going to start with an adaptive clearing.

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Using a 2D adaptive clearing, I'm going to select the bottom edge of this first step and inside of my passes,

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I'm going to take the axial stock to leave down to zero and say ‘okay’.

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The next thing that I want to do is take that same tool down into the bottom pocket.

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Using those same settings, I can right click this operation, and I can use duplicate, and then I can edit the duplicate.

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In the geometry section, we need to select a new chain, and we'll take it all the way down to the bottom here using the same settings.

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Note that the tool can't get all the way into those areas.

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So we need to make another 2D adaptive clearing.

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Once again, I can duplicate this operation and simply make some adjustments.

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With the duplicate, we're first going to go in and edit, then we need to modify the tool that we're using.

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In the sample tools Inch, we will select milling, we'll select flat end mills,

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and we'll take a look at a quarter inch flat end mill used for aluminium roughing.

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The geometry section is still the same, but now we want to turn on rest machining.

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We're going to say ‘okay’ and allow it to generate the operations.

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You can see here now that it has been able to clear out the inside.

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Lastly, I want to finish off these pockets, so I'm going to use a 2D contour with the same tool,

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allowing it to cut both the top and the bottom ledges.

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We're not going to have any stock to leave, and we're going to allow it to do this in one pass.

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Now, if we select all setups, we can go to simulate and take a look at stock removal for the entire part.

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I'm going to jump ahead past the first adaptive clearing past the contours and to the other side,

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past the first and the second, and finally play through the last 2D contours.

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This will allow me to see all the stocks that's been removed from the part and make sure that the final geometry matches what I was trying to machine.

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From here, let's go back to a Home view and make sure that we save.