Two new mouse menus have been added to SmartCAM. Accessed by pressing the right mouse button, while the cursor is over a Step or Layer in the list view, the Layer or Step pop-up menus offer several useful Layer or Step-based tools.

The menus allow you to add or edit layers and steps, duplicate steps, mask and unmask steps or layers, hide or show geometry assigned to the given step or layer, and set the Insert position based on the selected step or layer.

Elements can now be hidden or displayed by right-clicking on the geometry, in either the List or Graphic Views, and selecting the Hide or Show/Hide element menu option.

The Element Data content for analytic surfaces has been updated to display:

• for spheres and hemispheres, the diameter
• for cylinders, the diameter
• for cones that come to a point, the major diameters
• for trimmed cones, the major and minor diameters
• for torus, the major diameter and section radius

The Measure function now calculates and displays the planar angle between the two selected points.

When a toolbox contains just a few menu items, the list view height increases to allow more items to be displayed.

Three new options were added to the popular Element pop-up menu: Insert Before, Insert After, and Match Properties. These set the insert position before or after the element that was selected when the menu was opened. The Match Properties option shows the current status (on or off) and updates the Insert Bar properties.

You can assign any process model file to be used as a "Template," which will be read on start-up and when File - New is used to start a new process model.

The Template will pre-assign your new process model with the saved setting of the template, making it very easy to establish default group names, work planes, layers, operations, tooling, and geometry and more.