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Welcome to the Multi-Slide Lathe Machining User's Guide . This guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the Multi-Slide Lathe Machining Version 5 product.
This overview provides the following information:
- Multi-Slide Lathe Machining in a Nutshell
- Before Reading this Guide
- Getting the Most Out of this Guide
- Accessing Sample Documents
- Conventions Used in this Guide.
Multi-Slide Lathe Machining provides functionalities for programming Multi-slide lathe machines or Lathe centers by offering:
- Machine slide definition: turrets and spindles
- Structured programming: one program per turret
- Selection of turrets and spindles at operation level (Turning, Milling, and Drilling)
- Synchronization between operations for multi-turret machines
- Gantt chart viewer for synchronization representation and programming time review
- Time based replay for multi-turret machines
- NC output: one program per turret in a single file.
Supported operations are as follows:
- Turning
- Drilling
- Milling
- Auxiliary operations such as Tool Change, PP Instruction, and Machining Axis Change.
Limitations for this version of the product:
- Update turning stock functionality is not available.
- Generate machine rotations functionality is not available.
- Video replay is By Program (Turret) not By Spindle (cross programs).
- Auto-sequencing is not available.
Multi-Slide Lathe Machining is an add-on product for the Version 5 Lathe Machining.
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