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Picking Overlap Surfaces
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Overlap surface selection mode:
Either press the
button
in the Work Mode Dialog
(if you are in Wizard Mode),
or display the Geometry
parameters in the parameter
tables.
The Geometry Table is displayed:
To start picking the required geometry, press the numbered button adjacent to the Overlap Surfaces geometry parameter. This button displays the number of overlap surfaces that have already been selected. You are then prompted to pick the required geometry.
See Selecting / Unselecting Geometry.
See the cursor symbols in Cimatron when picking geometry.
Overlap surfaces define the area where the milling is to be performed at the point at which differing toolpaths meet. They create overlapping adjacent faces and blur the milling borders of adjacent local operations.
Example:Example:
In the example below, the yellow area is milled with three overlapping toolpaths, each with its own orientation. Note that the toolpaths didn’t require manual contour definition of boundaries.
Once the overlap surfaces are defined, you can control the overlap machining distance by using the Surface Overlap parameter in the Horizontal Machining Expansion parameter table. The Overlap surfaces option works for parallel cut only and is displayed whenever the Horizontal Machining Expansion parameter table is displayed.
See the examples below.
Once surface selection mode is invokedinvoked, there are several ways to pick surfaces.
Note: See the Horizontal Machining Expansion parameter explanations.
Additional geometry selection methods are:
Examples
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Example machining result:
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