Units

This page enables you to define the unit system, spline approximation, chain selection, rest material calculation and fillet size for the last cut settings.  

Metric/Inch

This option enables you to select the unit system.

SolidCAM saves the information about the units in which the CAM-Part was defined in the CAM-Part database.

The following rules apply to this feature:

  1. When defining a new CAM-Part, SolidCAM checks both the default Units settings and the units of the SOLIDWORKS model. If these units are different, SolidCAM converts the units of the SOLIDWORKS model according to the CAM Settings.

  2. When opening an existing CAM-Part created with SolidCAM, SolidCAM sets the Units settings according to those of the CAM-Part.

  3. When opening an existing CAM-Part created with previous SolidCAM releases, SolidCAM works according to the default Units settings and does not save the unit information in the CAM-Part.

These rules enable SolidCAM to prevent inconsistency between SolidCAM Units settings, CAM-Part Units and Units of the CAD model.

Fillet size for last cut

This parameter defines the maximum allowed value of the radius for the external fillet.

Rounding

SolidCAM enables you to define the number of decimal units for rounding via the Rounding section of the SolidCAM Settings dialog box.

  • The default value of Decimal places on picked value for Metric is 3.

  • The default value of Decimal places on picked value for Inch is 5.