Originally Posted by
LRF
Mike,
Thanks for your comment and I also do the same as you on all my products now, however I must not have made myself clear. I want to know if I can export the finished results, from the first SC's programs machining into a new SC program and then write the machining operations for the second side using the results from the first program.
In the first program you usually have your part plus the machining stock which encases the part. After completion of the first program some of the desired features have been machined and some of the original machining stock remains. I would like to use those results as the part model for the second program. That is what I am asking and if yes some coaching on how to would be desired.
Another way of thinking maybe, if you watch one of the SC tutorials on flipping a part, they are writing a single program that firsts machines one side then they flip the part, establish a new set of coordinates for the other side and then continue machining. I wish to do it with 2 separate programs. Currently I write a program for the first side to it completion, then I write a new program but with the part flipped. However in this method when you flip the part it takes time to establish a new machining stock that mimics what is left on the parts after the first machining process and also it doesn't know that possible a hole thru which was drilled in the first program is already done.