Suppressing operations

SolidCAM enables you to suppress any operation in the CAM-Part, thus temporarily excluding it from the CAM-Part. When you suppress an operation, the operation does not participate in the calculation, simulation and GCode generation, as if the operation was deleted from the CAM-Part.

In the CAM Manager tree, the names of suppressed operations appear in gray. The tool path check box is disabled for the suppressed operations.

The Suppress/Unsuppress command is available via the right-click menu, for a single operation or a list of operations.

When the selected operations are not suppressed, right-click on the list of selected operations and choose Suppress. All selected operations are suppressed.

When the selected operations are suppressed, the Unsuppress command available in the right-click operation menu unsuppresses the selected operations.

When the list of selected operations contains both suppressed and unsuppressed operations, both Suppress and Unsuppress commands are available in the right-click menu. The Suppress command suppresses all the unsuppressed operations in the list. The Unsuppress command unsuppresses all the suppressed operations in the list.

Viewing suppressed operations

SolidCAM enables you to view the parameters of a suppressed operation. However, the operation buttons are unavailable.

Tool path

When an operation is suppressed, SolidCAM re-generates the CAM-Part tool path to exclude the tool path data related to the suppressed operations.

The tool path stays unchanged till the parameters of the operation are updated.

During the unsuppressing of the suppressed operation, the CAM-Part tool path is re-generated in order to include the data of the unsuppressed operations.