Discipline: Technology and Engineering
Subcategory: Civil/Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineering
Session: 2
Room: Exhibit Hall A
Kevon Young - Virginia State University
Co-Author(s): Dr. Zhenhua Wu
Background and Importance: Siemens NX is a program that streamlines engineering design, analysis, and manufacturing. NX manufacturing allows users to complete different tool creation and operations. This is a very useful feature because it allows machining simulation and programming. Users have complete control of manufacturing processes from milling, turning, to high speed machining. Advanced programing features in Siemens NX (from simple NC programming to multi-axis machining) can complete jobs easily. Post processing is also available for g codes, which can be used for any type of CNC machine tools and controller configurations. With these, NX allows users to create 3-D models and rapidly manufacture model parts. Methods: During this research, how to code and program CNC machine tools in NX was explored. Tool path was tuned when needed for complex machining features. Tool path verification was also studied if a machine would work given an NC code (how to run machine simulation). Results: I can now create programs from part models, which entails feature-based machining programming. I am now able to complete operations such as milling, turning, mill-turn, mold reworking, 5-axis machining, and high-speed machining. After programming, I am able to generate G-code and Shop Documentation, which will tell the machine what to do and how to run; it also gives details about the model.
Funder Acknowledgement(s): This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1818655. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Zhenhua Wu, zwu@vsu.edu
Role: Coding and programing CNC Machine tools in NX. Creating programs, and post processing of those programs.