Macro System Improvements - SmartCAM V14.5 - The SmartCAM macro system runtime interpreter has been replaced with a new two-pass compiler which immediately provides several key benefits such as faster processing, uniform language syntax, and built in error checking and reporting. The macro language has been enhanced with dynamic arrays, simpler string construction, additional branching capabilities, and new macro commands designed to solve specific programming needs, and it provides the opportunity for additional customization capabilities to be added in future releases.

Unwrap 3D Curves - SmartCAM V14.5 - Unwrap Curve allows 3D cylindrical curves extracted from wrapped features on a surface or solid model to be unwrapped into a plane parallel to the active workplane and tangent to the top of the cylinder. The unwrapped curves can then be used to develop toolpath to machine the wrapped feature, and the existing Wrap function used to convert the toolpath back into a 4th axis wrapped plane.

New Selection Improvements - SmartCAM V14.5 - Additional topological selection methods allow simple selection of an entire solid, and provide options to select all faces connected to the current selection set, or only those that are tangent.

Stitching Surfaces into Solids - SmartCAM V14.5 - This new functionality stitches surfaces in the active group into one or more solids. Surfaces that are adjacent to one another with coincident edges and vertices will be stitched into a solid. Once the open surfaces are converted into solids, all of the "From Solid" machining functionality, as well as the new surface selection features can be used.

Arc/Line Fit to Polyline - SmartCAM V14.5 - This new functionality creates new arc or line elements for each circular or linear polyline contained in the active group. The new arc or line elements can either replace the existing polyline elements at their respective database position, or be added to the database at the current insert position, without replacing the original polylines. This option is useful for converting extracted surface trimming curves into prismatic arc and line geometry.

Support for 3DConnexion Spaceballs and Navigators - SmartCAM V14.5 - SmartCAM now supports the 3DConnexion Spaceball/Navigator 3D mice. With the 3D mouse, the user can rotate, spin, pan, and zoom the view as desired.

ACIS® Solid Modeling Kernel - SmartCAM V14.5 - All SmartCAM products now include the ACIS solid modeling geometry kernel, previously only available in the FreeForm Machining and Advanced Milling products. This new capability allows all applications to import/export 3D wireframe, surface, and solid model data via DXF, DWG, IGES, and ACIS-SAT

OpenGL Graphics - SmartCAM V14.5 - The SmartCAM main graphics view (g-view) has been updated with OpenGL graphics. This change has several benefits, especially increased graphics performance. Other benefits include:

Machining From Solids Geometry Tools - SmartCAM V14.0 - the Create-From Solid geometry toolbox tools have been enhanced and are also now available in all SmartCAM products.

Code Compensation - SmartCAM V14.0 - New Machine Event allows special radius compensation user commands to be inserted into non-offset toolpath profiles.

File Preview Enhancements - SmartCAM V14.0 - When you save a PM5 Process Model file, a thumbnail image of the current g-view display is stored with the PM5 file to be displayed in the File Open Preview display. The File Open, Merge, CTG and Font file select dialogs also now include a Preview window. Clicking on the image preview displays a larger version of the thumbnail image.

Intermediate File Open/Save Dialogs Removed - SmartCAM V14.0 - The intermediate SmartCAM file selection dialog has been replaced with standard Windows file dialogs, bypassing the need to trigger the "File Select" button on the old dialog box.

Process Planner, Sort by Type Option - SmartCAM V14.0 - A new Process Planner Sort option allows the Step and Tool lists to be sorted by Operation and Tool type, which is particularly helpful when using the planner to organize and perform management tasks on your Job Libraries.

Invert Visibility Option - SmartCAM V14.0 - A new Invert Visibility option has been added to the Group palette and pop-up menu, providing the ability to toggle the visibility of geometry; items hidden become visible, and items visible become hidden.

Tool Tips - SmartCAM V14.0 - SmartCAM now displays tool tips, a short descriptive text string that describes what the cursor is hovering over.

Copy Image - SmartCAM V14.0 - File-Copy Image captures the current graphics view to the Window's clipboard to use in Setup Sheets or other documentation.

Plunge Roughing Milling Process - SmartCAM V14.0 - The new Plunge Rough Milling Process clears a boundary of material using a pattern of drilling-style plunge cuts. The plunge rough toolpath can be coded using either drilling canned cycles or conventional "long-hand" commands.

Trochoidal Roughing Milling Process - SmartCAM V14.0 - A new Trochoidal Roughing Milling Process clears material using smooth, continuous arc loops and lines which advance the tool along the profile in small increments. This technique allows slotting cuts to be performed using high feed rates while limiting the maximum tool load, thus extending cutting tool life.

Pocket Roughing True Spiral Path Type - SmartCAM V14.0 - A new Pocket Roughing True Spiral option generates a continuous spiral path between the pocket boundary and a central location within the region. This technique, available in the Pocket, Group Pocket, Face, and Cavity process panels, reduces spikes in tool load by eliminating step over moves that would otherwise be present in conventional offset pocketing path.

Macro Command Line Execution - SmartCAM V14.0 - A new Macro-Command function allows single macro language statements to be directly entered and executed by the system. If commands are entered while recording a macro they are also inserted into the macro file being recorded.

Macro Functions - SmartCAM V14.0 - A number of new macro commands have been added to the SmartCAM Macro Control Language (MCL). These functions add new capabilities to your custom macros and allow for better integration of custom control panels. Some of the new functions and capabilities include: