From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Integrated CAM with HSMXpress
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Work coordinates and multiple WCS
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Integrated CAM with HSMXpress
Work coordinates and multiple WCS
- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to be working on establishing the work coordinate system or multiple work coordinate systems. Now when we originally set up this job, you remember over here on the feature manager, we established a G54 position. So we pretty much already know we want to use work offset number one which is the G54 position. Now I've got multiple parts on the screen. I actually want to machine all four of those at the same time. Now, I could program each one individually with the same operations, but that's a lot of extra work. I also have the ability inside of HSM to establish multiple work coordinate systems and then just copy all those operations to each one of those different parts. So in this case here, I could say I want four of those and that'll automatically do all those operations four times. So let's go ahead and establish that. So to do that, come over here to the Cam manager and come up here, I notice that I've already got one little operation in…
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