Preface (CAM)

Starting with Release 2025, only 64-bit versions of CAD6 are available.

The CAM extension is a part of CAD6industrie. All further elements and commands of CAD6industrie are described in the CAD6 Online Manual.

General

The CAM extension consists of three components:

•The machine's tools can be comfortably managed (see Manage Tool List) within the plug-in. For each tool you can specify individual settings, for example milling depth, milling velocity, and spindle revs. And each tool can be assigned to a line color, drawing layer, or drawing pen. This allows you for example to mill all objects that have a black line color with tool 1. You can also specify a default tool which is used to mill all objects that are not explicitly assigned to a certain tool by means of their line color, drawing layer, or drawing pen.

•The order of objects can be controlled by highly sophisticated visualization functions (e.g. Check Order Visually). And powerful functions (e.g. Sort Objects Manually) allow you to easily change the order of objects.

•In case your machine does not support the commands for milling cutter compensation (G41/G42/G40) you can create corresponding CAM objects by using the menu command Milling Cutter Compensation. You should also use the command Pocket Milling only if your machine does not support special cycles for that purpose.

•Based on the tool list the approximate time needed to mill a certain group of objects can be calculated in advance.

•The general tool requirements of a machine are adjusted in the general parameters. These parameters apply to all tools.

•The universal postprocessor uses the settings of the tool list and of the general parameters for its export. All settings are available in the postprocessor in Variables.

A CAM Introduction was created with explanations on the basis of examples about the functionality of the CAM extension.

You can use the information specified in chapters Operating Mode of Control Texts, Variables for Control Texts, CAM Block Types and Cycle/Control Attributes, Postprocessor Chain, File Injection, Job, and Shadow Mode, and Tips for Editing Control Texts to create your own postprocessor or to edit one that is included. In CAD6, use the command CAM > Edit Postprocessor or CAM > Export with Postprocessor to edit the control texts of a postprocessor and apply other settings. By means of the Library > Block > Edit command, you can edit the cycle attributes of a block in the CAM library.

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