Hi Mr Alcini, I model a part and before I send it to the machining I want to make sure that the part meets a certain diameter for tooling, in other words I want the smallest endmill diameter that is required to mill the part, may you please give me a suggestion in GSD or FreeStyle workbench? Thanks for your unique videos.

@GerardAlcini

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Fardin, try using Surfacic Curvature Analysis, then select the limited radius option. Type in the a nominal value, say 5mm and set the color scale to your liking, then select all the geometry you wish to analyze and can see what radii are above and below your input value and you can use an option below in the dialog box called "on the fly", mousing over any area of concern to get a dynamic feedback of the radius and/or curvature value. Hope this helps

@fardin5059

3 жыл бұрын

@@GerardAlcini Thanks so much Mr Alcini, I tried it and I don't find it to work for my case, it is good for the curved areas but where there is for example two popped features in a part that the distance between them are less than the tool diameter the endmill will not be able to go between them and this analysis don't give a result because it is for curved areas.

@GerardAlcini

3 жыл бұрын

@@fardin5059 Fardin, what CAM software are you using? Many of them have a feature called REST (REmainingSTock) machining that will clean up remaining stock from larger tools...have you investigated if this feature exists? Otherwise, the only trick that I can think of trying is to try an edge fillet for the entire part and continually decrease the value until you have your answer. Head Impact Anaylsis would probably work...but I know that you don't have this license... :(

@fardin5059

3 жыл бұрын

@@GerardAlcini Thank you Mr Alcini, I am not the machinist guy but I know the machinist uses Powermill which have the REST-machining capability and he REST-machine the part and finds a spot which the tool does not enter and sends the model back to me to modify, my goal is to stop this back and forth between modeler and machinist and send the model in a way that makes sure it will not be sent back, I thought a tool like Thickness-analysis may exist to do what I expect and lack of such a tool really is strange to me. Thank you for your answer.

Hi! In what workbench can I find this command?

@GerardAlcini

Жыл бұрын

Hi There. In V5 it is CATIA ICEM Shape design but you also need the IEX (ICEM SHAPE DESIGN EXPERT 2) license.

@moises010590

Жыл бұрын

@@GerardAlcini thanks for replying