Month: August 2019

If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Move – Lesson 16 – Alphacam Router Tutorial From the edit tab select the Move function. We want to move all geometries, so click the All button on the command line. Accept by clicking RMB. In the next step, we must determine the Base…

If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Enclosing Rectangle and Offset Geometry – Lesson 15 – Alphacam Router Tutorial Let’s move to the Operations tab in the Project Manager and hide the operations by unchecking the boxes next to these operations. The view will be clearer. Let’s create the geometry of…

If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Machining Simulation – Lesson 14 – Alphacam Router Tutorial We can run the simulation in several ways. I will now show the two most used. The simulation can be started by selecting the appropriate type of simulation from the View tab. Or simply by…

If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Pocketing – Alphacam Tutorial – Lesson 13 For pocket machining we will use the same tool that we used for machining contours. So we don’t have to choose a tool anymore, we can choose Pocketing from the Machine tab. Pocket machining removes material from…

If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Rough or Finish – Lesson 12 – Alphacam Router Tutorial Machining strategies in Alphacam are located in the Machine tab. To be able to choose a machining strategy, we must first select a tool. From the Machine tab, select the Select Tool option. The…

If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Define Tool – Lesson 11 – Alphacam Router Tutorial We need a tool to start machining. Alphacam has a library of several tools that are installed by default. But you will not use them in your everyday work. Therefore, we will define our own…

If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Tool directions – Lesson 10 – Alphacam Router Tutorial YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/2aiolqVqzX8 Let’s prepare geometry for applying toolpats. Open the first part, p1-geometry-2d. First, hide the Dimensions layer and the Construction layer. Let’s turn on the visibility of the geometry direction arrows (Ctrl +…

If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons We’re practicing drawing – Lesson 9 – Alphacam Router Tutorial YouTube: https://youtu.be/zKhxJL8O-5o Now we draw the next part. Most of the functions we need to know are already known to draw this part. Let’s begin by drawing a square with a side of 200…

If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Dimensions – Lesson 8 – Alphacam Router Tutorial YouTube: https://youtu.be/VDrE_CvZULY To give you more information on the CAD functionality of the Alphacam, it is worth saying a few words about dimensions. At least to add or check basic dimensions. Dimensioning is in the CAD…

If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Bolt Hole Circle – Lesson 7 – Alphacam Router Tutorial YouTube: https://youtu.be/oXVRcu8JzUs We will now draw circles with a diameter of 9 and 15 mm, lying on a circle with a diameter of 150 mm. There is a function in Alphacam that makes it…