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Delcam’s FeatureCAM saves time and money for precision machinists
Changing to Delcam’s FeatureCAM software has produced big savings in both time and money for precision machining specialists, Future Fabricators based in Phoenix, Arizona.
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NC Code | User Interface | 2.5D Milling |
3D Milling & Modeling | NC Code | Turning |
Simulation & Display | Geometry | Dongle |
General
NC Code
- Backplotting
- Changing post units
- Sending CNC code to the machine using hyperterminal
- Generating a single program with multiple indexed setups
- Adding program name to post processor
- Macros in V13
- Drilling canned cycles, the way they should be
- Selecting postprocessors
- Getting a tool list with the NC code
- File extension for NC code
- Editing post processors
- Controlling number of decimal places displayed
- Automatically inserting the date in your NC code
- Changing fixture ID numbers
User Interface
- Color coded surfaces
- Working with color overrides
- Relative positioning
- Setting center of rotation for viewing
- Changing default startup directory
- Status bar pop-up menus
- Deleting objects within featurecam
- User views
- 3D simulation background color
- How to use pick labels
- Making a colors toolbar
- Using colors to organize your part
- Using F1 for quick definitions of attributes
- Customizing toolbars
- View entities dialogue box
- Customizing the status bar
- Box zoom always at your fingertips
2.5D Milling
- Optional and mandatory stops
- Cutting large chamfers
- Tricks with helical ramping
- Engraving serial numbers
- Plunge roughing a curve
- Milling face feature
- Indexing and wrapping
- Using total stock for a single rough pass
- Hole depth
- Stock other than block
- Tap drill selection
- Creating a counter bore that can be cut with an endmill in a circular fashion
- Using multiple roughing tools
- Setting multiple plunge points with a curve
- Cross section
- Engraving On A Curve
- Manufacturing window editing tools
3D Milling and Modeling
Turning
- Default turret location
- 2nd Operation on Turned Part
- Using the 3/4 lathe view for ID work.
- Turning off the feature wizard
Simulation and Display
- Calculating accurate machining time
- Last View
- Stay in Your current Viewing Mode
- Translucent part in the 3d simulation
- Adjusting how finely objects are displayed
- 3D Simulation of More than 1 Setup
- Faster Viewing Mode
Geometry
- Exiting a geometry mode.
- Using the curvature tool to determine proper size endmill.
- New Ellipse Constructor
- Curve to Geometry
- Projecting a Curve to Current UCS
- Displaying Circle and Arc Centers
- Dynamic Snapping Grid makes geometry easy
- Changing the Start Point of a Curve
Dongle
General
- Form Tools
- Complex Hole AFR
- Metric Conversion
- Multiple Setup Part
- Default Attributes
- Reloading Default Attribute Settings
- Optimizing your Windows color settings
- How to tell Featurecam you are keeping a specific tool in a given tool slot in the machine tool.
- Importing Solid models from Mechanical Desktop
- Carrying a Backup of the FM File
- Radial Patterns
- Mill & Turn the same part
- Adding Multiple Curves to a Feature
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