Ignore facing roughing

Most profiles have built in, by default a facing finish, that forces the facing tool to always make two facing passes, similar to the below patern: This repeated movement is often not needed for straight tool paths or with a low depth. For this reason the option, located on the machining tab, under the path …

Lower limit of front groove

Several profiles, especially on small cross sections, have by default a radius between 0.2 and 0.5mm on the front groove. Those grooves require then a tool with R0.2mm. If you do not have such a tool, you can force the software to generate the profile with a larger radius (0.4mm). This option should be used …

Edit work item

Work items, after created can be edited. This is done though the following window: Each option is explained in detail below: Profile details Information about the profile used are shown. The options that can be changed are: Quantity: When the window is present to the user, the original quantity produced is present on the dialog. …

Machine settings – Operation costs

The operation costs on the machine settings menu plays a important role for the cost calculation of the FastQuote and on the standard costing system. All settings on this section are independent of the currency in use. If you use dollars, set them as dollars, if euros, set all in euros. This is, you are …

Approximation movement

The standard, first movement, for each tool is in the form of a fast X and Z movement, similar to: This movement normally does not cause any issue if the tool change is made far away from the material on the Z++ direction. However there are configurations that require a different approach, more exactly machines …

Import DXF – navigation

Feature availability: version >= 5.4.0.0 User with access level >= 2 for some features For the imported profiles feature a new item was introduced on the root of the seals menu. The DXF imported: Base content Inside this main folder a similar structure to the next image is present: As the text is self explanatory, …

Hide / show profiles and folders

Feature availability: version >= 5.4.0.0 User with access level >= 2 It is possible to hide profiles or a complete folder from the navigation menu. To hide, simply right click over the profile and select hide. To unhide, please turn on the option on the configuration: And navigate back to the profile navigation where all …