User Guide

5-axis MachiningSolidCAM2005 Milling Manual

AT FRONT

The option AT FRONT is similar to AT CENTER and forces the tool touching point to be

always a ﬁxed point on the tool. In this case, this ﬁxed point is the beginning of the radius

of a bull nose tool in the direction of the tool motion. All changes to the tool orientation

are done around this pivot point which can cause gouging of the drive surfaces. Setting the

gouge control is critical when working with this option.

AUTO

If the AUTO option is chosen, the tool can be placed tangentially at a surface point with

a given surface normal direction. If the user changes the orientation of the tool, then the

surface contact point remains and the contact point on the tool moves from the tip of the

tool to the radius of the tool still maintaining the tangentiality between the tool and the

surface.

Simulate the operations of

Exercise13. The CAM-Part is

located in the Exercises\Tool_

Contact_point folder.

Tool Front

Move direction

Touch points

Move direction