Example 1: Creating material custom properties GUID and name

  1. Phase 1: Creating custom properties on the CAM machine
  2. Phase 2: Updating the Material Types catalog
  3. Phase 3: Extracting material custom properties in the .nc file

Phase I. Creating custom properties on the CAM machine

NOTE: A clean EngView installation loads with these three ZUND-related properties. If you choose to activate a ZUND machine for your work, these properties will become visible in the Material Types table. You will simply need to modify their values (see Phase II).

To define GUIDs and names as custom properties for materials, we first need to define them for the CAM machine that will process these materials.

  1. On the Tools menu, click Preferences, click the CAM node, and then, and then click CAM Machines.
  2. In the machines list, select the CAM machine you will be working with.
  3. Make sure the Enabled check box is selected (pictured).
CAM Machines Dialog
  1. Click Edit.

The Machine Properties dialog box appears.

Custom Machine Properties
  1. In Machine Custom Properties dialog box, in the Material Requested Properties section, create two properties with the following IDs:

NOTE: See general guidance about how to effectively create custom properties and what each column means.

IMPORTANT: The IDs must have exactly these names, as this is how they are set in the zund_ZCC.ncs file.

Custom Machine Properties
  1. When you are done with creating your custom properties, click OK to close the dialog box.
  2. Close EngView, and then start it again. We then move to updating the catalog of material types.
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Phase II. Updating the catalog of material types

  1. On the Tools menu, click Preferences, click the Materials and Processes node, and then click the Material Types section.
  2. Click the Custom Properties tab to open it.
Material Types Properties

In the table, you see the properties you have created. Here, you can edit the properties for a particular type of material. This means that the properties will apply to all the materials of this type.

  1. Select the check boxes in front of the properties and enter the correct information.
Material Types Properties
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Phase III. Extracting material custom properties in the .zcc file

When an .zcc file is generated in the EngView CAM module, the information in these custom properties is extracted in the file.

NC File
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