Creating Offset Groups

You can define offset groups to be used in machining operation.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
About Machining Features for Milling Machining

Create an Offset Group

You can define offset groups quickly.

  1. From the Surface Machining section of the action bar, click Sweeping . Apply a sweeping to the whole part. Exit the action by Cancel.


    Note: No offset group is proposed as you enter the dialog box.
  2. Click Offset Group .
    1. In the dialog box that is displayed, change the name of the group to Group.1.
    2. Click the red area in the sensitive icon and use the Face Wizard to select faces in the work area.
  3. Give the area that you have just created an Offset Local of 10 mm. Click Apply.
  4. Without selecting any part nor face, enter an Offset Global of 5 mm. Click OK.
    In the Manufacturing View, you see that the offset group has been created.
  5. Revert to the Sweeping operation.

    Note: The Offset Group you have just created is proposed automatically.

    1. Click Display or Simulate to check the validity of the machining operation.

      Note: See Displaying Tool Path

    You can see the difference with the first sweeping.

  6. Reduce the Max. distance between pass and click Display or Simulate.
    You can see that the offset applied to Offset Area.1 is different from that applied to the rest of the part:

Edit an Offset Group

You can change the color, the offset or the contents of an offset area by selecting its name in the Edit tab.

Note: When you create an Offset Area, it is given a name based on the value of the offset. If you modify the offset value, the name of the Offset Area will not be updated to this new value.

  1. Double-click the offset group in the Manufacturing View.
    The Offset Group dialog box opens.
  2. Select Offset Area10 in the Edit tab.
    1. Change the color to blue.
    2. Change Offset Local to 20.
    3. Click OK.
  3. Go back into the Manufacturing View and double-lick the sweeping operation that you have already computed. Once it is displayed, click Display or Simulate. Compare the results with those above.

Delete an Offset Group

You can delete offset groups.

In the Remove tab, select the offset group to remove (e.g. Offset Area10). Click Apply. Click OK to close the dialog box.