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Volume Milling 
> Volume Pocket 
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For Technology, choose Volume Milling as the main selection, and Volume Pocket as the subselection.
Remove volume material from pocket features recognized by the Pocket Manager.
Notes: Volume Pocket procedure:
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Geometry faces from which the pockets were created, are protected from being gouged. If the Parts Safe Milling option is set to Active, all the surfaces selected in the part procedure are also protected.
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The Volume Pocket procedure does not consider the current stock, it considers only the volumes of the selected pockets as stock to be removed.
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The Volume Pocket procedure considers all pocket volumes as one stock, even if they are completely separated.
See Creating a Procedure for a general explanation.
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For Technology, choose Volume Milling as the main selection, and Volume Pocket as the subselection.
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Choose the appropriate cutter.
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Set the Geometry parameters.
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Define the following Motion Parameters:
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Define the Machine Parameters.
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When finished, you can choose from the following Work Mode Dialog buttons:
(These options are also available on the Procedure popup submenu.)
If Save & Calculate is selected, the Process Manager displays the transformation procedure and indicates which source procedures participated in the transformation and whether they were merged into the transformation.
Pre-Drilling Operations
The Pre-Drilling Operations feature automatically calculates the optimal locations for pre-drilling holes in the stock that will be used by the roughing operation for plunging. Cimatron identifies these plunging points and creates the necessary drilling operations where required, esentially transforming a procedure into a multi cutter procedure.
Pre-Drilling Operations works with the following Volume Milling procedures and also supports Micro Milling.
General Interaction
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After you have created a procedure and selected a technology (see step 1 in Creating this procedure above), go to the Parameter table and select Motion Parameters > Entry & End Points.
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From the Pre-Drilling Operations parameter, select By Cycle from the dropdown list.
Note that two additional parameters are now displayed, Define Cycle and Drill Holes First.
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Click the Define Cycle button to open the Define Cycles dialog.
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From the Define Cycles dialog, select and enter the appropriate criteria to define a drilling cycle(s). See Define Cycle for more information.
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Select the Drill Holes First checkbox as required.
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Define the machine parameters.
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When finished, you can choose from the following Work Mode Dialog buttons:
(These options are also available on the Procedure popup submenu.)
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