The FeatureCAM User Guide is a companion to the Getting Started with FeatureCAM manual. For information on the FeatureCAM interface or tutorials for the entire FeatureCAM product family, refer to the Getting Started with FeatureCAM manual.
FeatureCAM is a product family containing FeatureMILL, FeatureMILL3D and FeatureTURN, FeatureWIRE, FeatureRECOGNITION, Tombstone Option Machine Simulation, Solid Modeling, Multi-turret turning and 5-axis Positioning Option. This User Guide covers the entire family. All products share many features. If a chapter or section is specific to a particular product, this distinction will be mentioned at the heading of that section.
Regardless of which modules you have purchased, the additional modules are available for your evaluation at any time. To evaluate other modules:
Close all FeatureCAM documents.
Click Evaluation Options from the File menu.
Click the modules you would like to try. Remember that FeatureMILL3D contains FeatureMILL so there is no reason to click both milling modules.
Click OK.
The program now allows you to access the new modules, but you cannot post code or save a file.
Reference information is also available from within FeatureCAM. This style of help has the advantages that it is easier to search than written documentation and on-line help lends itself better to cross-referencing. To display this help, select Contents from the Help menu. A dialog box with three tabs is displayed:
Contents: This tab contains the table of contents for the on-line help. Click on a book to reveal the underlying pages and click on a book to display the help topic.
Find: Use this tab similarly to an index to search for topics.
Search: Use this tab to search the entire help file for particular strings.
Help is also available for any dialog box you are using. Just click the Help button to display the on-line help for your current task.