CAM Level I - Milling

This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to CAM software. Emphasis will be on creating 2-1/2 axis CNC Milling operations:

Facing - regular or irregular profiles, with or without islands and pockets, using conventional, climb and alternating zigzag machining patterns.

Pocketing - regular or irregular profiles with an unlimited number of sub-pockets and islands using spiraling, concentric-in or concentric-out patterns, with unidirectional or bi-directional machining to perform climbing or conventional cutting with roughing, wall-finishing and floor-finishing options.

Contouring - profile cutting for roughing, slotting, semi-finishing and finishing straight or tapered walls with constant or variable cutting depths.

Hole making - Drilling, boring, tapping and other point-to-point machining cycles. Spiraling - machining circular pockets and bores with concentric-in and concentric-out cutting as true spiral or tangent arcs.

Library of standard tools - develop a tool library to include spot drills, drill, taps, finish end mills and roughing end mills.

Post processing - convert files to standard G&M codes using a variety of posts for use on CNC Milling Machines.