Tech Tips


NC Code | User Interface | 2.5D Milling | 3D Milling & Modeling | NC Code | Turning |
Simulation & Display | Geometry | Dongle | General



NC Code

  1. Backplotting
  2. Changing post units
  3. Sending CNC code to the machine using hyperterminal
  4. Generating a single program with multiple indexed setups
  5. Adding program name to post processor
  6. Macros in V13
  7. Drilling canned cycles, the way they should be
  8. Selecting postprocessors
  9. Getting a tool list with the NC code
  10. File extension for NC code
  11. Editing post processors
  12. Controlling number of decimal places displayed
  13. Automatically inserting the date in your NC code
  14. Changing fixture ID numbers

User Interface

  1. Color coded surfaces
  2. Working with color overrides
  3. Relative positioning
  4. Setting center of rotation for viewing
  5. Changing default startup directory
  6. Status bar pop-up menus
  7. Deleting objects within featurecam
  8. User views
  9. 3D simulation background color
  10. How to use pick labels
  11. Making a colors toolbar
  12. Using colors to organize your part
  13. Using F1 for quick definitions of attributes
  14. Customizing toolbars
  15. View entities dialogue box
  16. Customizing the status bar
  17. Box zoom always at your fingertips

2.5D Milling

  1. Optional and mandatory stops
  2. Cutting large chamfers
  3. Tricks with helical ramping
  4. Engraving serial numbers
  5. Plunge roughing a curve
  6. Milling face feature
  7. Indexing and wrapping
  8. Using total stock for a single rough pass
  9. Hole depth
  10. Stock other than block
  11. Tap drill selection
  12. Creating a counter bore that can be cut with an endmill in a circular fashion
  13. Using multiple roughing tools
  14. Setting multiple plunge points with a curve
  15. Cross section
  16. Engraving On A Curve
  17. Manufacturing window editing tools

3D Milling and Modeling

  1. 3D arc/line toolpath approximation
  2. Displaying hidden imported items
  3. Surface from a feature

Turning

  1. Default turret location
  2. 2nd Operation on Turned Part
  3. Using the 3/4 lathe view for ID work.
  4. Turning off the feature wizard

Simulation and Display

  1. Calculating accurate machining time
  2. Last View
  3. Stay in Your current Viewing Mode
  4. Translucent part in the 3d simulation
  5. Adjusting how finely objects are displayed
  6. 3D Simulation of More than 1 Setup
  7. Faster Viewing Mode

Geometry

  1. Exiting a geometry mode.
  2. Using the curvature tool to determine proper size endmill.
  3. New Ellipse Constructor
  4. Curve to Geometry
  5. Projecting a Curve to Current UCS
  6. Displaying Circle and Arc Centers
  7. Dynamic Snapping Grid makes geometry easy
  8. Changing the Start Point of a Curve

Dongle

  1. Troubleshooting your dongle
  2. Upgrading Dongle

General

  1. Form Tools
  2. Complex Hole AFR
  3. Metric Conversion
  4. Multiple Setup Part
  5. Default Attributes
  6. Reloading Default Attribute Settings
  7. Optimizing your Windows color settings
  8. How to tell Featurecam you are keeping a specific tool in a given tool slot in the machine tool.
  9. Importing Solid models from Mechanical Desktop
  10. Carrying a Backup of the FM File
  11. Radial Patterns
  12. Mill & Turn the same part
  13. Adding Multiple Curves to a Feature
 

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