About Milling NC Sequences
To access Mill type NC sequences, you must be in a Mill or Mill/Turn workcell. The following NC sequence types are available:
• Face—Facing down the workpiece.
• Volume Rough—2.5-Axis slice-by-slice milling used to remove material from a specified volume.
• Roughing—High-speed milling sequences used to remove all material inside a Mill Window boundary.
• Plunge Rough—2.5-Axis rough milling of deep cavities by a series of overlapping plunges into the material, using a flat-bottom tool.
• Re-rough—Used to machine only the areas where a previous Roughing or Reroughing sequence could not reach.
• Local Milling—Used to remove material left after a Volume, Profile, Conventional or Contour Surface, or another Local milling NC sequence (usually with a smaller tool). Can also be used to clean up material in specified corners.
• Surface Milling—3- to 5-Axis milling of horizontal or slanted surfaces. You are given a choice of several methods for defining the cut.
• Conventional Milling—3- to 5-Axis milling of horizontal surfaces. The tool moves in a defined angle over the milling surface.
• Profile Milling—3- to 5-Axis milling of vertical or slanted surfaces.
• Finishing—Used to machine the detail of the reference part after Roughing and Reroughing.
• Corner Finishing— 3-axis milling, to automatically machine corners and valleys that cannot be reached by a previous ball end mill.
• Pocketing—2.5-Axis milling of horizontal, vertical, or slanted surfaces. The walls of the pocket will be milled as with Profiling, the bottom—as the bottom surfaces in Volume milling.
• Swarf Milling—5-Axis milling of a series horizontal or slanted surfaces by cutting with the side of the tool.
• Trajectory—3- to 5-Axis milling, with the tool moving along a specified trajectory.
• Custom Trajectory Define the tool path for 3- to 5-axis Trajectory milling by interactively specifying the trajectory of the control point of the tool.
• Engraving—3- to 5-Axis milling, with the tool moving along a Groove cosmetic feature or a curve.
• Thread Milling—3-Axis helical milling.
• Drilling—Drilling, boring, tapping.
• Auto Drilling—Auto drill selected holes using the selected coordinate system or retract plane.