Overview of tombstone machining

The tombstone fixture document enables you to arrange FeatureCAM milling parts on a tombstone for production manufacturing.

Your first step is to describe your tombstone. Tombstones for vertical and horizontal milling machines are supported. Specify the number of faces and the dimensions of a face. These dimensions are remembered for future parts.

Next use the tombstone wizard to open FeatureCAM parts and position them on the tombstone. You can cut multiple copies of a single part or mix different parts on the tombstone. You can order the operations automatically to minimize tool changes across all setups or to cut each setup completely before rotating.

Example of four parts on a two face horizontal tombstone

Example of twelve parts on a six face horizontal tombstone

Example of four parts on a four face vertical tombstone.