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The 2019 CAM Automation Guide is Here!

MecSoft Corporation is excited to announce the release of The 2019 CAM Automation Guide, a FREE 60-page guide to automating your CAM programming with its 2019 line-up of CAM plugins including VisualCAD/CAM, RhinoCAM, VisualCAM for SOLIDWORKS and AlibreCAM.

Many of you have asked for more ebook publications from the support team here at MecSoft Corporation. This guide delivers with comprehensive user information on the following topics:

 

Feature Machining Automation

Everything related to automatic and interactive feature machining is covered in detail in this guide. You will learn about Automatic and Interactive Feature Detection as well as Automatic and Interactive Feature Machining on any solid model! You will also learn how to set filters for feature detection and how to work with milling and hole features within knowledge bases!


 

CAM Knowledge Automation

You will learn everything there is to know about Knowledge Bases including how to create one, how to load and apply one and most excitingly how to establish rules based geometry selection for your toolpath strategies!


 

Cutting Tools Automation

Learn the basics of cutting tool automation with the use of tool libraries. How to create a tool library and load and unload a tool library are covered. You will also learn how to add new tools to a library and how to select a tool from a library to use in your toolpath strategies.


 

What’s Inside

The 2019 CAM Automation Guide is packed full of information that will help you become more proficient with your MecSoft CAM software. Here is the complete list of topics included in this must-have companion guide.

Feature Machining Automation
          Feature Preferences
          The Features Tab
          Automatic Feature Detection (AFD)
          Interactive Feature Detection (IFD)
          Automatic Feature Machining (AFM)
          Interactive Feature Machining (IFM)
          Set Filters for Feature Detection
          List Features
          Knowledge Base for Milling Features
          Knowledge Base for Hole Features

CAM Knowledge Automation
          The K-Bases Tab
          Create Knowledge Base
          Load Knowledge Base
          Rule Based Geometry Selection
          Apply Knowledge Base
          The Feeds & Speeds Calculator
          Use The Preinstalled Tool Libraries
          Add your Existing Tools to a Library
          More about the Tools Tab
          More about the Create/Select Tools dialog

 

Cutting Tools Automation
          Save a Tool Library
          Load a Tool Library
          Unload a Tool Library
          Add Tools to a Library
          Select Tools from a Library

 

How to Download this Guide

The 2019 CAM Automation Guide is available as a FREE download to ALL MecSoft users! To download this guide, just select one of the links below:

 

More Information

For more information about each of these Mill Module products, including data sheets, videos and other resources we invite you to visit the following product pages:

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Don LaCourse is an Application Engineer with MecSoft Corporation. Don brings over 20 years of experience in CAD/CAM operations in both automotive and mold design applications. Don also has extensive experience in documenting CAD/CAM products and is actively involved with writing the on-line help as well as creating training tutorials for MecSoft's products.

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