Defining Materials in Material Dropdown List

The Material dropdown list available in the Pat Data tab allows you to assign the material of the part(s) to be nested.

CAMWorksNesting provides the option to populate the Material dropdown list and thus store information on the standard materials used at your facility. This provides the benefit of making the material selection easier by enabling you to  select desired material from the dropdown list instead of manually typing it in.

Viewing/Editing the Material.ini file:

1. Open the file named Material.ini located in the CAMWorks Installation folder.
2. The second line of this file indicates the number of materials already listed. For example, if 4 materials are defined in the file, then the  MaterialCount is set to 4.
3. To add more materials to the list, enter the name of the new material in the same syntax as those already listed.  
4. Increment the Material Count by 1 every time you add a material.
5. For example, to add a fifth material to a Material list, set the Material count to 5 and add the new material at the bottom of the list:

[Material]

MaterialCount = 5

Material1 = Steel

Material2 = Copper

Material3 = Iron

Material4 = Bronze

Material5 = Aluminium

Note:

• CAMWorksNesting extracts the part parameter of Material from the Solid Part and displays it in the Material field as default material of the part.
• When the material cannot be extracted from the 3D model, CAMWorksNesting assigns the first material listed in the Material.ini file as the default material for the part.