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



NC Code

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

User Interface

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

2.5D Milling

  1. Back Boring
  2. Backplotting
  3. Complex Hole AFR
  4. Working with color overrides
  5. Optional and mandatory stops
  6. Cutting large chamfers
  7. Getting a tool list with the NC code
  8. Tricks with helical ramping
  9. Engraving serial numbers
  10. Plunge roughing a curve
  11. Milling face feature
  12. Indexing and wrapping
  13. Using total stock for a single rough pass
  14. Hole depth
  15. Stock other than block
  16. Tap drill selection
  17. Creating a counter bore that can be cut with an endmill in a circular fashion
  18. Using multiple roughing tools
  19. Setting multiple plunge points with a curve
  20. Cross section
  21. Engraving On A Curve
  22. 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. How to delete unused toolcribs except the one I’m currently using (multiple versions of FeatureCAM installed in one machine).
  2. Form Tools
  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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