Customizing

This section describes how to customize settings for Machining.

Before you start your first working session, you can customize the way you work to suit your habits. This type of customization is stored in permanent setting files: these settings will not be lost if you end your session.

Other tasks for customizing your Machining environment are documented in the Machining Infrastructure User's Guide:

Build a Tools Catalog
Access External Tools Catalogs
PP Word Syntaxes
NC Documentation
Workbenches and Tool Bars

 

  1. Select the Tools -> Options command. The Options dialog box appears.

  2. Select the Machining category in the tree to the left. The options for Machining settings appear, organized in tab pages.

  1. Select the tab corresponding to the parameters to be customized.

Parameters in this tab... Allow you to customize...
General general settings for all Machining products
Resources tooling, feeds&speeds and resource files
Operation machining operations
Output PP files and NC data output
Program manufacturing programs (sequencing, and so on)
Photo/Video material removal simulation
  1. Set options in these tabs according to your needs.

  2. Click OK to save the settings and quit the Options dialog box.