CAM Settings

The SolidCAM Settings dialog box enables you to change the path to related applications, units, tolerances, default machines, editors, and color settings for SolidCAM. You can easily view and edit the current program preferences and options.

The following pages are available in the SolidCAM Settings dialog box:

• User directories

• Units

• Default CNC-Controller

• GCode

  • GCode Simulation

• CAM-Part

  • Automatic CAM-Part definition

  • CoordSys definition

  • Stock Definition

  • Updated Stock

  • Synchronization

  • Cleanup CAM-Part

• Tool path simulation

  • Machine simulation

• Defaults

  • Geometry

  • Names

  • Spin and Feed

  • Colors

  • CAM-tree

  • Link

  • CAM Messages

  • Template

  • Tolerance

• Machining Process/Hole Wizard Process

• Tool search

• Tool table

• Transformation

• Documentation/Help

• Parallel Operations

• Channel synchronization

• Interoperational tool movements

• Miscellaneous

Managing CAM Settings

SolidCAM enables you to save the CAM settings as an external file and then load the saved file into SolidCAM. Furthermore, SolidCAM enables you to reset the customized settings to their default values.

• Saving the settings

• Loading the settings

• Resetting the settings to default values

• Saved Cam Settings