Tutorials

Tutorials

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Tutorials

Typographical Conventions

Setting Up PrimeCut for Tutorials

Workflow Tutorials

Basic Workflow Tutorial

Creating a Workorder

Nesting Workorder parts

Closing the Workorder

Sequencing and Creating a Cropped Plate Remnant

Nesting Onto Multiple Plates

Unscheduling and Pooled Workorder Nesting.

Loading parts from the Database and Reusing Nests.

Part Processing and Importing a Solid STEP File

Editing Tutorials

Selection and Navigation in Editors tutorial

Direct Selection

Enclosing Rectangle

Crossing Rectangle

Select Items Button

Confirmed (Alt-) Selection

Select Leadin/Leadout

Navigating the display

Understanding Part Revisions

Exporting and Importing a Bill of Materials from PrimeCut database

Importing a CSV Bill of Materials from drawings on disk.

Geometry Tutorials

Part Geometry- Tidying up

The Problem Part

Reversing Paths

Using 'Join' and 'Explode'

Removing a Redundant Line Segment

Using 'Corner Join' on Crossed Lines

Changing Line Length to Close a Corner Gap

Changing Line Length to Remove Overlap

Using 'Close Path'

Part Geometry - Smoothing

Assess Part Complexity

Smooth the Geometry

View the Smoothed Part

Part Geometry - Create a Slotted part

Creating a blank part

Hexagon Geometry

Create Slot Geometry

Copy Slot to Top

Copy Slot to Left

Mirror Slot to Right

Create Centre Hole

Advanced Geometry - Distribute Along Path

Part Geometry - using the 2D shapes library

Harvesting Parts from a single DXF file

Part Geometry - Dimensioning

Dimension Shape Part

Print Part Report

Importing a Dimensioned Part

Dimension Styles

Nesting Tutorials

Nesting-Basics, Moving and Copying

Placement of Parts

Nesting - Arraying

Staggered Array

Spacing and rotation of Arrays.

Arraying a Cluster

Arraying with Copy/Paste of Clusters

MultiBox cutting

MultiCut Tutorial

Nesting and Merging on Expected Remnants

Editing a part in nesting

Processing Tutorials

Basic Part Processing

Part Processing: Basic Flame Cutting

Part Processing: Leadins, Leadouts and Undercut

Basic Plate Processing

Plate Processing: Leadin Placement and Tool Options

Plate Processing: Selecting, Copying and Pasting

Spindle Processes for Holes

Types of Drilling Tools

Processing for Simple Drills

Pre-Drill, Bore, Counter Bore, and Chamfer tutorial

Mixed Part and Plate, Corner Loops, Drilling and Tapping.

Part Processing with Corner Loops, Drilling and Tapping

Mixed Plate Processing

Hypertherm Truehole

Adding a Milling Bit

Roughing with Plasma, Finishing with Mill

Roughing and Finishing with Mill

Smart Slot Milling of Slots (and NC code)

CommonLine Cutting

Creating the Cluster

Auto Strike-through Bridging

Manual Strike-through Bridging

How to Avoid Distortion Problems when Bridging

Continuous cutting

Simple Bevel on a Simple part

Multiple Bevel Wizard - 'Bottom Bevel + Land'

Multiple Bevel Wizard - 'K-Bevel'

Advanced Bevelling

A Few Bevel Hints

Note on Copying and Pasting Bevel Processes

Varying the Bevel Angle over a Path

45 Degree Pipe Intersection

Break Bevel Segment Feature

Quotes Tutorials

The Quote Life Cycle

Quick quoting with Sketch Parts

Nest Based Quoting

Dealing with a Quote Warning

Requoting a Previous Workorder

Using Discounts and Extra charges

Scheduling Tutorials

Creating a Shift with Lunch Breaks

Creating a Recurring Holiday: Melbourne Cup Day

Creating a Maintenance Outage

Creating a Recurring Meeting

Settings Tutorials

Database Management

Material Families

Adding a Spindle Sequence

Editing Spindle Costing Data

Smart HPR automatic process selection by material and thickness

Loading Report Packages

Changing Report Paper Size

Changing PrimeCut terminology

Connecting TouchCut to PrimeCut

Communicating with TouchCut through the Planning module

Activation and Reconciliation in TouchCut