MEK- Department of Mechanical Engineering, DTU - Building 426 - DK-2800 Lyngby
Torben Lenau lenau@mek.dtu.dk Tomas Benzon tben@mek.dtu.dk
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Overview: CAM exercises
Courses 42616, 42617 & 42618 - Exercises in CAM


coach screendumps The exercises in the CAM part of the course consist of:

A) 3 Tutorials customized for Wildfire 5.0, one for each week of the CAM part of the course
B)
The Individual Task, where you have to model, do the CAM programming and finally manufacture your own part. This task is described in a separate page.

The exercise content for each week can be seen below.

What you have to do:

1) Download and open the appropriate tutorial
2) Download all of the Pro/Engineer tutorial files (various reference models etc.) from the write-protected directory:

R:\WF40\training_wildfire\CAM\proetrainingfiles\cam1_mm\

3) Download the default Pro/Engineer configuration file from the write-protected location:

R:\WF40\text\config.pro

4) Place the tutorial files and the configuration file on your permanent student drive (I:\) for easy retrieval
5) Upon completion of the exercises of Week 1, proceed to the Individual Task

Deliverables:

Each tutorial specifies which elements you need to show to your instructor for approval.
Upon your successful completion of all parts of a tutorial your instructor will sign your approval sheet.

If your work is not approved immediately you must backup the manufacturing session for easy retrieval.
See how to backup files, or a narrated extract from the Individual Task video

 

 

WEEK 1 WEEK 2 WEEK 3

Exercise instructions week 1

Part 1: Basic Machining
Part 2: Volume Milling


These exercises takes about
2 hours to complete

+ INDIVIDUAL TASK
This task takes about 1 hour to complete

Exercise instructions week 2

Part 3: Profiling
Part 4: Manipulating a Mill Path
Part 5: Trajectory Milling


These exercises takes about
2 hours to complete

Exercise instructions week 3

Part 6: Surface Milling
Part 7: Customized Milling


These exercises takes about
2 hours to complete


Note:

You can access additional Pro/Engineer tutorials using COACH (coach2.mcad.dtu.dk)
Be aware that these tutorials is for use with Wildfire 2.0 and may thus contain outdated instructions!