Set up Stock and WCS

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Set up stock NW CS.

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After completing this video, you'll be able to

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create a new CAM setup, define stock and define a CAM or coordinate system.

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In fusion 3 60.

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We want to begin by uploading and opening the supply data

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set precision machine and caliper front preset up dot F three Z

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A dot F three Z file is another type of archive file that contains multiple designs.

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In this case, we have a design that is the entire caliper,

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which we've already seen before.

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And we have a version that was derived,

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which is just the front portion of our caliper and there's also a vice.

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So make sure that you take a look at this design

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before closing your data panel and moving into the manufacturer workspace.

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Once we're in the manufacture workspace,

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the first thing that we want to do is identify the units.

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The units by default are going to be metric, but we can change those to inch.

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And if you constantly work an inch, you can also set that as your default units

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from here. We now want to create our milling setup

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to do this. Let's make sure that we're on the milling tab and create a new setup.

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If you're on the milling tab,

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the operation type will automatically default to milling.

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But you can also change that if you happen to be on a different tab,

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make sure that yours does say milling and then we

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can move on to selecting the model and our fixture

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for the model. We want to make sure that we're using the caliper.

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So let's expand the models,

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expand the top level of the precision machining caliper.

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Let's also expand the body's folder and note

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that we've got the derived caliper front.

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This is represented with an arrow,

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meaning this was pulled from another external design.

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We've got our stock and then we've got a component that represents the entire vice

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for the model we want to use for machining. We're gonna select the caliper.

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Next,

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we want to activate the fixture option and we

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want to select all the components of our fixture.

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In this case,

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just selecting that component inside of the browser is the easiest thing.

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Next, we want to define the stock.

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And by default,

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this is gonna be based on a relative size based on the part that we've selected.

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We can see here that the stock that we have on the

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screen is slightly different size than the stock that's been modeled.

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If we view this from the side.

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For example,

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you can see that the stock that was modeled is sitting directly on a set of parallels.

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But the stock that is automatically offset from the caliper is not long

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enough to actually be held in the vice in this current position.

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This is why it's a good idea for us to model our stock in Fusion

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the part and our work holding.

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So for this example, we want to change the mode to from solid

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and then select our stock solid inside of the browser.

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We can see that the stock is four inches by 1.75 by two inches.

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Then back in our setup,

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we want to make sure that we set the

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coordinate system at the correct orientation and position.

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We need to make sure that Z is pointing up first.

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So we're going to change the orientation based on the selected Z and X axis.

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We can select a vertical edge or one of the default axes.

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In this case, I'm gonna select Y

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this puts Z in the vertical position which matches the orientation on our machine.

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However, X is pointing the wrong direction

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because X is in the correct orientation, just the wrong direction.

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We can simply flip X without making a selection.

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Then we want to use a stock box point in the upper left hand corner.

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When we're setting this up on the machine.

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It's important to note that our caliper is centered in the

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vice to make sure that we've got equal clamping pressure.

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And we're gonna be using the stock size to represent

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the corner or the location of our W CS.

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This can be done manually or with probing if needed.

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Now that we have this set,

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let's navigate to the post process section and make sure that we

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have our program name number and W CS offset set properly.

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For this example, we're gonna be using 10100 for the program number.

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Our comment is going to be caliper front op one or operation one.

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And the W CS that we want to use is going to be G 54.

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Since we don't have a machine selected in our set up,

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we need to use these W CS offset numbers

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zero and one will both represent G 54 in our host nextgen control.

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But it's always a good idea to be specific with this

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one is definitely G 54 2, is definitely G 55 and so on.

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So make sure that you are deliberately putting in values

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that represent the coordinate system that you plan to use.

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Once we have that we can say, OK,

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there's one more step to this process that we wanna do.

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We first want to rename setup 1 to 1 and create an associated named view.

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I'm gonna use the view cube in the upper corner between the front,

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the left and the top views.

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And then I want to zoom into my part,

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simply move it to the middle of the screen.

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Then we want to right click on one go to associated name view and make a new named view.

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This is going to create a name view in the name view folder called

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one, which is the name of our setup.

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And this means that any time we rotate the model, we can click on one

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or we can also click on the activate button next to one.

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And this will not only show the same view but

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also the components that are visible in the setup.

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So this is going to be extremely helpful as we begin to program our part,

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having this associated name view

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at this stage. Let's make sure that we do save this before moving on to the next step.