Stock Creation

In V6.11, we have completely renewed the dialogue of Stock creation.

This dialogue is similar in the 3 different situations:

• creation of stock, when you go from Design to Machining tab for the first time,

• edit stock, when you double-click the line in Machining Tree or right-click and select Edit.

• creation of stock during the automatic import of solid.

Some icons will appear depending on which environment (Milling/Turning/Swiss Machine/Wire EDM) you are working in.

Three demonstration videos are available, each covering a distinct stock creation scenario:

• Stock Creation from 2D Geometry (DXF Import)

  • Demonstrates element selection and stock generation by applying margins.

• Stock Generation During Automatic Solid Import

  • Focuses on defining cylindrical stock using dimensional parameters.

• Stock Setup for Turning Operations

  • Explains the "Keep Links with Entities" feature, Safety Area configuration, and geometric adjustments.

Milling and Wire-cut EDM Parts

Turning Parts

Shape of Stock

Cubic (Milling & Wire-cut EDM)

You can choose the shape of the stock by clicking on this icon. The physical shape of the stock is now displayed in the combo box.

For the cylinder, you also have the ability to define a cylinder as a tube, by defining a value for the inner diameter

Cylinder (Milling & Wire-cut EDM)

From Existing Solid (All)

You can create a stock by clicking on a solid if you select this option.

Cylindrical (Turning)

The cylinder bar can also be defined as a tube by defining a value for the inner diameter.

N sides (Turning)

Create a stock bar with N number of sides for instance, with a hexagonal face.

By selecting a profile (Turning)

Define the stock by selection of profiles to have a distinct shape.

Selection

Keep links with entities

We can also maintain the links with the selection. So, if the geometry is modified, then the stock will be automatically recalculated.

Keep entity

Allows you to create a stock while retaining the original solid or mesh.

Delete all

We clear all selection using the ‘Delete all’ button

Select everything visible

Use to select any geometry visible on the screen.

Sizes

Dimensions

When your stock is known, you can input the dimensions in terms of length, width, height and diameter/radius(Inside/Outside), Length of Bar, Number of sides( for N sides stock)

In Milling, Cylindric stock can be tube shapes, thanks to the possibility of defining a inner diameter value.

Redefine manually the center

To define any point of the stock to be the center.

Center Automatically

To automatically define the center of the stock.

Lock dimensions

Help to keep same dimension while editing margins.

Margins

Margins(-/+)

Margins enables the creation of the stock by an offset of the bounding box of the geometry.

Edit Stock: We now allow margin modification when stock was created without history

Identical margins for X and Y

This a button available to input identical values for the X and Y margins.

Center the margins

When any of the axes dimensions are locked, you can utilize the 'Center the Margins' button to ensure equal margins for the corresponding locked axis.

Safety Area

By clicking on this option, a dialog box appears where you can set parameters for a safe envelope.

Stock Conservation

When defining a stock shape from an existing solid or mesh, the user has the possibility to keep the solid entity instead of converting it completely to the stock by checking the box ‘Keep entity’.

This allows quick modification of the stock shape by simply modifying the solid entity and doing an update.

To streamline the stock creation process, you can build a stock catalog containing predefined stock configurations. Instead of manually defining stock parameters each time, you can select a preconfigured stock from your catalog.

Key Features:

• Product-Specific Catalogs: Stock catalogs are not shared between different GO2cam products. For example, a catalog created for Swiss machining will not be accessible in horizontal lathe operations.

• Integrated Combo box: A dedicated window menu in the stock creation window allows users to define custom stock dimensions and safety zones.

• Parameter : All dialog parameters are saved in a configuration file within the .mat (material) directory. When a stock is selected from the catalog, all associated parameters are automatically loaded.

When a height value is locked in the milling product, you must specify the stock's Z-position using one of these options:

• Centered on Z – Positions the stock symmetrically about the Z-axis

• Bottom Offset – References the stock position from its bottom face

• Top Offset – References the stock position from its top face

This selection enables accurate stock positioning when working with fixed height constraints.

The stock management engine allows the use of the command 'From an existing solid' in the ‘Definition of stock’ window to select a mesh object (either designed or imported) to be converted to the stock. This has the consequence of defaulting all machining cycle computation to the rapid stock mode. Since the original stock is a mesh, the user no longer has the possibility to switch to solid stock computation.

If the stock is initially defined as a solid, it is still possible to convert the computation of the stock to the rapid mode (mesh) at 2 stages:

1. Converting an Existing Solid Stock to Rapid Stock ( The Stock management method)

2. Converting Stock computation for each cycle ( Individual cycle computation modes)

Further details for the stock computing and the conversion options can be found in the Stock Computing page.

There are two possibilities to define a cast stock:

1. You have the ability to import several solids in one file or several files. During the import command, you can define one of the solids as the stock.

2. The second possibility is to merge the stock shape on the part with the command Add, in the menu File. After merging the 2 files, you can select one solid as the stock in the stock edit command.