Skip to content
English
Contact support Access my support tickets
Not a customer ?
  • There are no suggestions because the search field is empty.

SOLIDWORKS CAM · Lesson 3: Organize operations

Manually created machinable feature, reordering, automatic sorting, combining and linking operations.

Lesson goal

Add what automatic recognition missed and arrange the operations in a logical machining order.

▶

4 videos

✎

1 exercise

Intermediate

↳

Prerequisite: Lesson 2

1. Watch the videos

Dassault Systèmes videos hosted on MySolidWorks: they open in a new tab and a free account is enough. Watch them in order.

Interactive Feature RecognitionVideo 1▶Interactive Feature RecognitionManually create a 2.5 axis machinable feature, set its end condition and strategy.↗ Reorder OperationsVideo 2▶Reorder OperationsChange the order of operations by drag and drop, including with multiple selection.↗ Sort OperationsVideo 3▶Sort OperationsReorder operations automatically by type.↗ Combine and Link OperationsVideo 4▶Combine and Link OperationsGroup operations of the same type and link them across two setups.↗

2. Key takeaways

1

Interactive Feature Recognition (IFR) creates by hand a feature that the automatic tool did not find, for example a corner slot.

2

Drag and drop in the operation tree changes the machining order.

3

Sort Operations reorders automatically according to an operation type order you define.

4

Combining operations of the same type reduces tool changes; linking lets you do this across two setups.

Tip

After an automatic sort, check the order of the holes: a center drill must always come before drilling the same hole.

3. Do the exercise

On a part with several pockets and holes:

  • manually create a 2.5 axis feature that was not recognized
  • sort the operations by type, then fix the order by hand if needed
  • combine similar roughing operations
✓To check: The operation tree contains fewer operations than before combining, and the simulation is still correct.

Stuck on the exercise or on a real part?

With Ohmycare, your dedicated engineer works through the topic with you in a 30-minute session, on your own files.

Book a session