import into feature cam

[robys988]

Good morning, I looked a bit here on the forum but I couldn't find anything... .
I have feature cam and I would like to import files created with solidedge st4 and create the tool path only that as soon as I imported the solid then I can not create the processing.........you know how to explain how to proceed? You know I'm a hobbyist, so I don't know the technical names and everything... thank you

 

[robys988]

Losing half a day I realized something that uploading the file in *.stp format is correct and the crude is true to me only that when I avoid the "circles" of the holes I do not select them. I practically designed an adapting plate and should first make the 3 holes for the 6mm motor then make the 8mm holes then make a slight sanding to remove various imperfections and bays and then cut the circle with a 6mm milling but I can't do anything... .

 

[filippo b]

learning to use featurecam properly on your own is difficult. of mine, I would prefer to say impossible, however you can always find the operator above the average that succeeds.
search for the specific youtube channel, there are well-made tutorials that can give you inspiration.
two things: the native of solidedge is importable, in any case as iso is to be preferred parasolid and not stp;
holes on a solid model are recognized in "automatic" or by selecting the faces that make up them, the circles are not used except in drawings 2d

 

[robys988]

Maybe in the night I realized a problem....in the design I used the circles instead of the holes... today I try....

 

[robys988]

I did try to draw the piece in question by using the hole command instead of the circle, saved in *.par format and imported in feature cam practically if now I would like to make holes as I should do? I have to select the face then do the processing command and then hole? also because 3 are 6mm 4 from 6mm and a 18mm power station(which I have to do with a 6mm mill

 

[robys988]

I would only need the basics to do simple processing (I use it above all to create holes and some small cut on plates) I spy as I then if I mistaken you will correct me, I click on import size and then ask me if I want to make the wizard for the setup of the piece and the crude (I open this usually) or tell me if "accept the important data as well as ano and import the model from solid edge"

 

[filippo b]

Rules of the good featurecam user:
- if the holes were built for such in one of the three parametric cads (sw, if, a) it is advisable to recognize them through the modeler in question, then if suppressing them from the solid or not remains a personal choice;
-you only work on solids, think to use surfaces or, worse, look for is anachronistic and anti-economic;
- if you are not sure of the drilling work carried out in useless cad think to use the import of the holes directly from the solid modeler in question;
-the recognition of holes in a solid any makes completely autonomous and, however, can be altered individually or massively;
- all the work of featurecams are within the window "new processing", it goes from itself that the recognition of holes on the solid model find it right where it has to be (in this window);
-to recognize holes on solid I choose "hole" and active "feature recognition", then skilled "recognize together of holes" and possibly perfect the filters offered, once recognized all holes in the axis of interest I can screech or not the rescue;
-Saved the recognition of the holes I can change them to pleasure;
- holes are preferably recognized with active repetitions, if there are 10 equal holes the repetition of a single hole will be created, executed 10 times.