Edgecam Tips & Tricks

Edgecam Tips & Tricks

The following is a list of Edgecam tips and tricks that you may or may not know:

•  Selecting the proper solid faces and/or entities can
    be simplified by using the window command.
    Depending on the direction the window is created,
    can vary what faces and entities are selected.

    o  Select a number of items by using click and drag to
        enclose them in a window.

    o  Left mouse click and drag from:

       •  Left to right to select all entities that are within
           the window created.

       


       •  Right to left to select all entities that are within or
           partially/intersecting the window created.

       

•  Click Entity Types in the Input toolbar if you
    want only certain types of entity to be selectable.

      

•  In the ‘Layers’ Tab, you can show this individual layer
    by right clicking on the layer and selecting ‘Show
    Only’.  Alternatively, you can right click in the ‘Layers’
    Tab and ‘Show All’ layers.

•  To display features (in translucent form) click
    Toggle Features in the Display toolbar to activate it.
    Click Toggle Features again to de-activate it and
    switch off the feature display.

 


•  Choose between splitting the view horizontally or
    vertically.

 

•  To hide the toolpath for a specific instruction:

    o  In the Sequence window, right-click on a
        (machining) instruction.
        A tick   next to the option indicates that the
        toolpath for the instruction is displayed.

    o  Click the Visible option from the shortcut menu to
        hide the toolpath for that instruction.
        Hidden toolpaths are shown in pale grey in the
        instruction list (see illustration, instruction 14).

 

Note

  •  You can hide the toolpath for an operation without
      having to expand it.

  •  You can select multiple instructions by holding down
      the CTRL or SHIFT key while selecting the
      instructions with a left mouse click.



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