Sequential Mill mirror

Hello guys today i’m going to demonstrate a technique for mirroring and reversing a sequential mill tool path. I’ve defined an MSC mill here at this corner that’s my G54. The sequential mill operation is very simple i just did a swarf down at the root pass here. I used looping to create the three additional passes.

So let’s get started on the technique. I need to locate the sub op from which i started the looping for me it was this point-to-point`.

So i double click so i see edtitng active go to options control and here’s the indication that this is whrere i started. What i must do is swap the initial and final stock. So my initial stock is 0 my final stock is 0.3 what this is going to do is make it backwards for this operation.

Of course it prompts for generate and i click okay. Now i didn’t verify that for you but if i had you’d see that this one is wrong it would be starting down at the root pass and then moving up. Let’s go through the steps that we previously went through i’ll right click and and transform the operation to the plane.

Drag and drop it to the other workpiece, right-click toolpath edit

Right-click toolpath edit because this is NX10 . I start at the top and reverse

Next i’m going back to toolpath and i’m gonna lock it just so no one’s tempted to try and regenerate after seeing the knot symbol here

Let’s run our verification

It looks like the correct result this time. So that’s a technique for creating a mirrored and reverse tool path for sequential mill operations