FeatureCAM Tech Tips


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


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. Selecting postprocessors
  6. Macros in V13
  7. Drilling canned cycles, the way they should be
  8. File extension for NC code
  9. Controlling number of decimal places displayed
  10. Automatically inserting the date in your NC code
  11. 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. Editing post processors
  13. Indexing and wrapping
  14. Using total stock for a single rough pass
  15. Hole depth
  16. Stock other than block
  17. Tap drill selection
  18. Creating a counter bore that can be cut with an endmill in a circular fashion
  19. Using multiple roughing tools
  20. Setting multiple plunge points with a curve
  21. Cross section
  22. Engraving On A Curve
  23. 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

Installation

  1. Running Multiple Versions of FeatureCAM on One Computer

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