When creating strategies you will primarily be working within the Strategy Manager application. However, there are a number of Strategy Manager commands within the EdgeCAM environment.
Starting Strategy Manager
Use the Strategy Manager command in the Solids menu.
Select the Strategy
Manager icon
from the Solids
toolbar.
Outputting a Process
Strategy Manager requires processes containing one or more EdgeCAM instructions to be created from the Sequence Window and passed into the Strategy Manager application.
In EdgeCAM, select the required instructions in the Sequence Window and open the context menu with a right-hand mouse click.
Select the Output Process option from the context menu. This places the selected instruction(s) on the clipboard.
Applying a Strategy
To apply a defined strategy to one or more features follow these steps:
Enter Manufacturing mode.
Select the feature(s) to be machined from the Feature browser.
Open the context menu with a right-hand mouse click and select Apply Strategy.
Alternatively, you can select the Apply Strategy command from the Solids menu.
Browse for the required strategy definition file. The location for strategy files in EdgeCAM can be set using the Strategy Folder option on the General tab of the Preferences (Options menu) dialog, with the default set to the cam\strategy folder. Please note that EdgeCAM uses the location as set when applying strategies but Strategy Manager itself will always access the last used location.
Also see Applying the Strategy.