Extruded Surface in Alphacam – How to create Subscribe me on YouTube! It the video below you will see how to create extruded surface in Alphacam. Also: – set work volume – set material – select work plane – work on workplane Extruded Surface in Alphacam on YouTube!
Alphacam Snaps – Alphacam Tutorial for Beginners Snaps – something definitely useful! When you create a geometry or eg. use some function from Edit Tab on the command line Snaps appears. You can also find Snaps in the Geometry Tab. First Snap on command line is Auto-Snaps. I will discuss this later. Let’s see END-point…
How to change Alphacam ‘green’ geometry to construction – way 1 The first way to change the ‘standard’ geometry to construction geometry is moving geometry from Geometry layer to Construction layer using drag and drop method. This is very easy when we have small amount of geometries. When we have complex drawing with many geometries…
Construction geometry in Alphacam This command allows us to create auxiliary geometries. This geometries can be created using all of the same tools located in the Geometry Tab and you can edit it using options from the Edit Tab but construction geometry can not be machined. Now, when this option is active, all drawn geometries…
Alphacam Enclosing Rectangle Enclosing Rectangle is another option from Special Geometries. Create any geometry or open the file from the previous lesson. Now select the Enclosing Rectangle and in command line select All. This will select all geometry in the workspace. Accept this by clicking RMB. We received a rectangle enclosing whole geometry. Please see…
Equi-spaced Holes Along Curve in Alphacam Next option in Special Geometries in Alphacam is Equi-Spaced Holes Along Curve. To activate this option you have to draw some geometry. Let’s draw an involute curve. Now Equi-Spaced Holes Along Curve is active and we can choose this function. We could specify Number of Holes or Approx Interval…
Slot in Alphacam Slot is the another special geometry in Alphacam. After selecting this option window shown below will appear: When you fill the text boxes and click OK, you will get: The slot parameters shown in the figure below: Please see the video on YouTube!
Involute curve in Alphacam Alphacam tutorial for Beginners After selecting this option you can determine: Base Circle Diameter – this circle is used to create involute curve, Number of Quadrants that are drawn to create involute curve. You can enter XY coordinates of base circle or click whenever you want in the Alphacam workspace. Some examples below: Example 1: Example 2: Example 3: Example 4: Example 5: Example 6: All together: Please see the video on YouTube!
Alphacam Tutorial for Beginners – Bolt Hole Circle Another special geometry is Bolt Hole Circle. This command allows you to create a circle of bolt holes around a circle. Fill the text boxes and click OK. Now you have to place circle’s center. You can click anywhere on the Alphacam workspace or enter the coordinates of the circle’s center. Please see the video on YouTube!
Ellipse in Alphacam Using Special Geometries we can easily draw an ellipse. After selecting this option window will appear. Width and height parameters: Width is a value of the ellipse in X axis, Height is a value of the ellipse in Y axis. Number of quadrants (1 – 4): Number of Arcs per Quadrant – you can specify how many Arcs are used for each quadrant, the default is four, but this can be changed to any amount you would like to…