ALPHACAM2019 R1 | Wire Features Grids |
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General |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
NC File Output | • | • | • |
List NC Code | • | • | • |
Post Processor Selection | • | • | • |
Printer/Plotter Output | • | • | • |
Insert Existing Drawing File | • | • | |
Input NC Code as Geometry or Tool Paths | • | • | |
Input Raster Image Files | • | • | |
Report Creator and ALPHACAM | Designer ( * ALPHACAM | Designer requires a valid ALPHACAM maintenance contract ) | *• | *• | |
Convert Raster to Vector | • | • | |
Open/Save Drawing Template | • | • | |
User Definable ALPHACAM Text Fonts | • | • | |
File Inserter Project Manager Tab | • | • | |
CAD File Input Translators |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Input CAD – Solid Model Assemblies - Split into separate Part Files | • | ||
CAD File Output Translators |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
DXF, IGES | • | • | |
WMF, EMF | • | ||
STL, VDA, Rhino | • | ||
Parasolid, ACIS | • | ||
Views |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Dockable Project Manager | • | • | • |
Dynamic 3D View | • | • | • |
Reverse View | • | • | • |
Shading/Wireframe Mode | • | • | • |
Zooming (All, In/Out, Window, etc) | • | • | • |
Zoom In/Out with Scroll Wheel | • | • | • |
Panning | • | • | • |
Panning with Middle Mouse Button | • | • | • |
Set Limits | • | • | • |
Change Background Color | • | • | • |
Savable View Perspectives | • | • | • |
Selectable View Perspectives | • | • | • |
New View Window | • | • | • |
Multiple/Dockable View Windows | • | • | • |
Display Options |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Show Material Cut | • | • | • |
Show Breaks | • | • | • |
Single Step Mode | • | • | • |
Draw Rapid Moves | • | • | • |
Draw Surfaces in Layer Color | • | • | |
Draw Solid Bodies as Wireframe | • | ||
Render Feature Extracted Geometries | • | • | |
Render Geometry With Z level | • | • | |
CAD Geometry |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Fast Geometry | • | • | |
Edit/List Geometry | • | • | |
Construction Mode | • | • | |
Text Creation and Editing | • | • | |
Digitizing (On Screen and Tablet) | • | • | |
Line, Rectangle | • | • | |
Arcs, Circles | • | • | |
Polygon, Ellipse | • | • | |
Bolt Hole Circle | • | • | |
Involute Curve | • | • | |
Slot | • | • | |
Equal Spaced Holes | • | • | |
Enclosing Rectangle | • | • | |
Spline Creation and Editing | • | • | |
Convert Spline to Lines/Arcs | • | • | |
Assign Image to Geometry | • | • | |
3D Polyline | • | • | |
Geometry Macro Recorder | • | • | |
Parametric Sketcher ( * Creation and Editing requires a valid ALPHACAM maintenance contract ) | • | • | |
Run Parametric Sketch | • | • | |
Minimal 3D Bounding Box | |||
Surface Creation/Edition |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Surface from Sections | • | • | |
Swept Surface from 2 Curves | • | • | |
Swept Surface from 3 Curves | • | • | |
Coons Patch from 3 Curves | • | • | |
Coons Patch from 4 Curves | • | • | |
Ruled Surface | • | • | |
Surface of Revolution | • | • | |
Fillet Between 2 Surfaces | • | • | |
Tri-Corner Fillet | • | • | |
Extruded Surface | • | • | |
Flat Surface | • | • | |
Break Intersecting Surfaces | • | • | |
Edit Surface Control Points | • | • | |
Un-Trim Surfaces | • | • | |
Extend Surface | • | • | |
Surface Finder | • | • | |
Extract Edge from Surfaces | • | • | |
Convert to STL Facets | • | • | |
Geometry/Tool Path Editing |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Undo | • | • | |
Redo | • | • | |
ALPHACAM Clipboard (Cut, Copy Paste between diferent sessions) | • | • | |
Fabricate (Cut, Crop, Delete Area, Subtract, Unite, Overlapping, Intersecting, Loop, Paneling) | • | • | |
Break, Join | • | • | |
Break at Distance | • | • | |
Trim, Extend | • | • | |
Extend by Distance | • | • | |
Fillet, Chamfer | • | • | |
Offset (Element and/or Path) | • | • | |
Grouping/Ungrouping | • | • | |
Definable Cutting Start Point | • | • | |
Manual/Automatic Cut Ordering | • | • | |
Geometry Query Manager | • | • | |
Change Object Types | • | • | |
2D Array, Scale, Stretch, Skew | • | • | |
2D Move, Copy, Mirror, Rotate | • | • | |
2D Transform - Dynamic combined command | • | • | |
3D Move, Copy, Mirror, Rotate | • | • | |
Auto 2D/3D Mode | • | • | |
AutoQueries | • | ||
3D |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Set Work Volume | • | • | |
Create Sections | • | • | |
3D Part Rotation | • | • | |
Project 3D to 2D | • | • | |
Reverse Tool Side (On Surfaces) | • | • | |
Edit 3D Polyline | • | • | |
3D Project to Suface, STL or Plane - 3 Axis | • | • | |
Wrap on Surface - 3 Axis | • | • | |
Wrap Around Geometry | • | • | |
Make Local Axis Horizontal | • | • | |
Work Planes |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Browse/Select Work Planes | • | • | • |
Slice Through Work Volume | • | • | |
2 Lines for X and Y Axes | • | • | |
Exiting Geometry | • | • | |
Parallel to Current Work Plane | • | • | |
Perpendicular to Current Work Plane | • | • | |
Reverse Current Plane | • | • | |
As Current Plane, Different Origin | • | • | |
By Name | • | • | |
Best Fit Plane Through Points | • | • | |
By Line Element Vector | • | • | |
Normal to View | • | • | |
Set Work Plane Origin | • | • | |
Work Plane Properties | • | • | |
Order Work Planes | • | • | |
Cancel Work Plane | • | • | |
From Solid Model Face | • | ||
Utilities |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Distance/Angle between Points | • | • | • |
Report Coordinates of a Point | • | • | • |
Radius of a Arc/Circle | • | • | • |
Snap to Same X, Y or Z as… | • | • | |
Snap Points | • | • | |
Auto Snap Points | • | • | |
Points to Lines/Arcs | • | • | |
Auto-Close Contours | • | • | |
Common Line Removal | • | • | |
Fold/Unfold | • | • | |
Develop to Flat | • | • | |
Join Parts with Bridge | • | • | |
Link Adjacent Circles | • | • | |
Undo | • | ||
Redo | • | ||
CAD Utilities |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
User Layers | • | • | • |
ALPHACAM Layers | • | • | • |
Dimensions | • | • | • |
Hatch | • | • | |
Set Line Type | • | • | |
Edit Line Type | • | • | |
Line Properties | • | • | |
Hide Parts | • | • | |
Show All Parts | • | • | |
Move Dimensions | • | • | |
Magnify | • | • | |
Constrained Parametric Sketching |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Fix | • | ||
Horizontal | • | ||
Vertical | • | ||
Length | • | ||
Radius | • | ||
Coincident | • | ||
Perpendicular | • | ||
Tangent | • | ||
Distance | • | ||
Angle | • | ||
Equal Distance | • | ||
Equal Length | • | ||
Parallel | • | ||
Concentric | • | ||
Midpoint | • | ||
Drag | • | ||
Constrain Z Levels | • | ||
View Constraints | • | ||
Constrain Work Plane | • | ||
Delete All Constraints | • | ||
Delete All Variables | • | ||
Auto Constrain | • | ||
Edit Variables | • | ||
New Parameter | • | ||
New Equation | • | ||
Re-order Parameters/Equations | • | ||
Import Variables | • | ||
Insert Constrained Drawing | • | ||
Parametric Rules | • | ||
Solid Model Extraction |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Automatic Extraction | • | ||
Drillable Hole Extraction | • | ||
Hole Chamfer Extraction | • | ||
Contour from Picked Edges | • | ||
Contour Around Picked Edges | • | ||
Contour Through Current Work Plane | • | ||
Edge for Sawing | • | ||
Surfaces from Faces | • | ||
Projected Face Outline to Work Plane | • | ||
Z-Level Section | • | ||
3D Edge Extraction | • | ||
Edges from Face Outlines | • | ||
Profiles from Extended Edges | • | ||
Extract Solid Body Outlines | • | ||
Spun Outline Extraction | • | ||
Solid Model Utilities |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Offset Faces | • | ||
Cap Holes | • | ||
Create Bounding Work Volume | • | ||
Remove Contours Defined as Holes | • | ||
Reset Geometry Z-Levels | • | ||
Reverse View | • | ||
Set View Down Normal | • | ||
Auto-Align Part | • | ||
Align Part | • | ||
Set Face Color | • | ||
Paint Faces | • | ||
Face/Edge/Point Details | • | ||
Check/Repair Part | • | ||
STL Utilities |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Convert STL Facets to Polylines | • | • | |
Delete STL Facets | • | • | |
Chop STL into Sections | • | • | |
Reverse Face Colors | • | • | |
Extract 3D Edges | • | • | |
Project Edges to Current Work Plane | • | • | |
Create Enclosing Rectangle | • | • | |
Nesting |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Enhanced Nesting Interface | • | • | |
On Screen True Shape Nesting | • | • | |
On Screen Rectangular Nesting | • | • | |
Nesting of Geometries | • | • | |
Nesting of Tool Paths | • | • | |
Manual Nesting | • | • | |
Onion Skinning | • | • | |
Create/Edit Nest Lists | • | • | |
Nesting from Nest Lists | • | • | |
Display Nesting Information | • | • | |
Sheet Database | • | • | |
Save Off-Cut to Sheet Database | • | • | |
Area Estimate from Part or Sheet | • | • | |
Nesting Zones | • | • | |
Definable sheets with No-Nest Zones | • | • | |
Kit Nesting | • | • | |
Bridged Nesting | • | • | |
Control Nesting In Apertures | • | • | |
Roll Split Nesting Support | • | • | |
Use Part Name Identifiers on Sheet | • | • | |
Best Sheet Utilisation | • | • | |
General Machining |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Set Cut Directions (On Geometry) | • | • | |
Set Start Point Automatically on Closed Geometries | • | • | |
Prepare Geometry for Cutting | • | • | |
Cut 2-Axis Shapes | • | • | |
Cut 4-Axis Shapes | • | • | |
Cut 4-Axis Shapes on Work Planes | • | • | |
Conic Cuts | • | • | |
Clear Area | • | • | |
Lead-In/Out Moves | • | • | |
Insert/Delete Program Stops | • | • | |
Machining Styles | • | • | |
Machine Data Editing |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Order/Renumber Operations via Project Manager | • | • | • |
Order Operations in Nested Sheets | • | • | • |
Tool Path Data | • | • | • |
Quick Edit Machine Data | • | • | • |
Edit Clear Area Operations via Project Manager | • | • | |
Edit 2-Axis and 4-Axis Operations via Project Manager | • | • | |
Special Edits Manager via Project Manager | • | • | |
Adjust Rapid Positioning Moves | • | • | |
Tool Path Updating (Associativity) | • | • | |
Update Individual Operations via Project Manager | • | • | |
Copy an Existing Operation via Project Manager | • | • | |
Move Machined Geometry to Own Operation via Project Manager | • | • | |
Simulation |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Shaded Simulation | • | • | • |
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
Turn Add-Ins On/Off | • | • | |
Run Macros | • | • | |
Open VBA Project for Running | • | • | |
Open VBA Project for Editing | • | ||
Create New VBA Project | • | ||
Open VBA Post for Editing | • | ||
Integrated VBA Editor | • | ||
CAD Importers |
Shop Floor |
Standard |
Advanced |
See Supported CAD Table document for more details | |||
Ilustrator (* requires a valid ALPHACAM maintenance contract ) | |||
PDF (* requires a valid ALPHACAM maintenance contract ) |
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