Example 2: Material custom property CuttingMode

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1. Phase I: Creating custom properties on the CAM machine
2. Phase II: Editing CAM template
3. Phase III: Updating the Material Types catalog
4. Phase IV: Extracting material custom properties in the .nc file

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Phase I. Creating custom properties on the CAM machine

NOTE: A clean EngView installation loads the property zund.cuttingmode.cut, which comes from ZUND machines. If you choose to activate a ZUND machine for your work, this property becomes visible in the Material Types table. To use this property, it is not enough to simply edit it in the Materials catalog. You will also need to edit the respective CAM template (see Phase II below).

For the respective ZUND machine, consider your situation:

• To customize the CuttingMode property with regard to cutting tools, create the material requested property with ID.
  • zund.cuttingmode.cut
• To customize the CuttingMode property for cutting and creasing tools, create material requested properties with IDs:
  • zund.cuttingmode.cut
  • zund.cuttingmode.crease
• If you need all tools to have the same setting for CuttingMode that is other than standard, the material requested property with ID.
• zund.cuttingmode

TIP: Learn how to create properties (Steps 1–7).

2. In the Tools Custom Properties tab, create a property named $MaterialCuttingMode.

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Phase II. Editing CAM template

3. In the CAM template, for the tool whose CuttingMode you want to depend on the material, set as value machine custom property ID.

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Phase III. Updating the catalog of material types

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

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.

6. Select the check boxes in front of the properties and enter the correct information.

IMPORTANT: The values of the CuttingMode in the Zund Cut Center can be speed, standard or quality. You are restricted to using any of the three.

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Phase IV. 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.

NOTE: If no ZUND Cutting mode material property has been specified for a material but there is a tool, for which its CuttingMode is set to seek information from the material, then this setting will be retrieved from the zund_ZCC.ncs file as follows:

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