All of the tooling components were sketched by using the two little boxes that allow to enter coordinates! The enineer that then producced the drawings recognized this as well but instead of working with the other engineer simply applied all the dimesinoning directly in the drawings completely bypassing the parametric design intent. The first look at the design in SolidWorks revealed to my utter surprise that non of the sketches that were used had any dimensions or any constraints. In the middle of the project the lead design engineer left for another job and I was asked whether I could help with the tooling design, something I had not done in over 10 years.
The reason why I dont "like" this feature is because about 5 years ago I worked for a company and the tooling that was designed and about to go into manufacturing was part of the companies prestiege project that was over budget already. The only workflow I can imagine at the moment is if you have a CNC program that provides you with coordinates and not dimensioned geometric elements and you want to recteate the geometry in 3D. Please explain in a littel more detail why you would need it and the workflow associated with it. Having a continuous display of where the mouse is on a given sketch plane is fine and can be helpful but entering direct coordinates to create sketch gometry can be an outright dangerous design practice! I freely admit my ignorance if called for, but I am having a hard time envisioning a workflow that necessitates this feature. The Cam is impressive and it sso noce to have it integrated. I really want x and y as a start to show up reference by the origin as I move the mouse in sketch. What I would like ASAP though is an option to turn on cooordinate view at the bottom right next to the steps displayed. I can patiently wait for this as I have been getting ny by placing at a known grid point and moving sketches precisely. I was leery of the whole cloud thing but its working for me so far.
#Bobcad cam setup sheet not showing tap full
I actually paid the full 1 year subscription already and hope that wont go up too much every year as I am committed to staying with this product, The cost of both of those (license and maintenenance) has me joining the Fusion 360 experience and I really like what I see so far. Never liked Meshcam and hated having to export stuff all the time as. I have spent the last 10 years having to use Alibre (now Geomagic) and Bobcad for CAM.
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