Tutorials

<< Click to Display Table of Contents >>

Navigation:  »No topics above this level«

Tutorials

Introduction

Setting Up PrimeCut for Tutorials

   Changing units

   Escaping

Workflow Tutorials

   Basic Workflow Tutorial

      Creating a Workorder

      Nesting Workorder parts

      Reconciling

      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

      Deselecting

      Direct Selection

      Enclosing Rectangle

      Crossing Rectangle

      Select Items Button

      Confirmed (Alt-) Selection

      Select Similar

      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

      Move Slot

      Copy Slot to Top

      Copy Slot to Left

      Mirror Slot to Right

      Create Centre Hole

      Classify Paths

   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

      Setting up

      Moving Parts

      Placement of Parts

      Rotate Parts

      Copying Parts

      Copying Plates

   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

      Countersinking

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

      Part Processing with Corner Loops, Drilling and Tapping

      Mixed Plate Processing

   Hypertherm Truehole

   Milling

      Adding a Milling Bit

      Roughing with Plasma, Finishing with Mill

      Roughing and Finishing with Mill

      Face Milling

      Smart Slot Milling of Slots (and NC code)

   CommonLine Cutting

   Bridging

      Creating the Cluster

      Spine Bridging

      Auto Strike-through Bridging

      Manual Strike-through Bridging

      Chain Cutting with Smart Cluster

      How to Avoid Distortion Problems when Bridging

      Using Common Crop Smart Cluster to Break up a Plate

   Continuous cutting

   Bevelling

      Simple Bevel on a Simple part

      Compound Bevels and QuickPrep

      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

      Bevel Rotation

      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

   Giving Users Edit Schedule Permission

   Creating a Shift with Lunch Breaks

   Creating a Recurring Holiday: Melbourne Cup Day

   Creating a Maintenance Outage

   Creating a Recurring Meeting

Settings Tutorials (Advanced)

   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

Practice