Automation in NC programming provides a major opportunity for competitive business advantage. Automation makes programming faster, more repeatable and it requires less programming expertise to get good results.

Feature Based Machining
Feature based machining directly associates machining processes to features from the part model. Feature recognition, even from imported wire frame geometry, together with automatic process selection and toolpath generation, can reduce programming time by more than 90 percent compared to standard techniques. Feature based machining in NX CAM consists of automated holemaking and feature based milling of prismatic features.

Process Wizards
For everyday use of common tasks, companies can use NX CAM to build process wizards with easy to follow steps. Wizards can capture your company’s best practices in a process and then lead a novice user through this process, step by step.
Software programming skills are not required to create these Process Wizards. They can be easily created using the Wizard builder which has an easy to use interface with simple drag and drop operations.

Process Templates
NX enables programmers to apply pre-defined process and set-up templates that can be driven by rules. This automates and speeds programming tasks, ensures the use of preferred methods and tooling which helps the less experienced user. Users can easily create new templates or modify existing ones.