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Mastercam Configuration Guide

The document discusses configuring Mastercam settings including line width, on-screen control size and opacity, and auto-save and backup settings. It provides steps to change the line width used for wireframe geometry to the selected width, increase the size of on-screen elements to 150%, adjust the opacity of selection controls, and set Mastercam to auto-save files every 10 minutes and keep the 10 most recent backup files.

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Mastercam Configuration Guide

The document discusses configuring Mastercam settings including line width, on-screen control size and opacity, and auto-save and backup settings. It provides steps to change the line width used for wireframe geometry to the selected width, increase the size of on-screen elements to 150%, adjust the opacity of selection controls, and set Mastercam to auto-save files every 10 minutes and keep the 10 most recent backup files.

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Mastercam Basics Tutorial—2: Working with Configuration Files

3. Select the Line width shown below.

Wireframe geometry you create now uses this line width.

4. Click OK in the System Configuration dialog box.

5. Click Yes to save all current settings to the Tutorialconfig.config file.

6. On the Wireframe tab, select Rectangle.

The Rectangle function panel opens.

7. Follow the prompts to create a rectangle, and then click OK in the Rectangle function panel.

The line style and width of the geometry matches the selections in the CAD page, as well as the geometry color
set in the Colors page.

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Exercise 4: Changing the Size and Opacity of On-screen Controls


In this exercise, you set the size of the on-screen gnomons and text and change the opacity of the Selection Bar and
Quick Mask buttons.

1. Click File, Configuration to open the System Configuration dialog box.

2. Select the Screen page.

3. Enter 1.5 for Scale display gnomons and text and press [Enter].

The size of the elements in the graphics window is increased to 150%.

4. Move the Selection controls opacity slider from left to right.

This option adjusts the opacity of the Selection Bar and Quick Masks. Watch as the opacity changes with the
slider movement, and choose an opacity setting you like. The first image below shows the slider set to 50%
opacity and the second image shows the slider set to 100% opacity.

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5. Click Apply to save the settings on this page.

6. Select Yes to save the settings to the configuration file.

Exercise 5: Setting up AutoSave and Backup


When you are working on a part, Mastercam can save your work automatically at intervals that you specify. You can
also save versions of your files as backups. In this exercise, you set up these functions.

1. Expand the Files category, and select the AutoSave / Backup page.

2. In the AutoSave / Backup page, do the following:

l Select AutoSave to activate the AutoSave options.

l Enter 10 for Interval (in minutes).

l Select Mastercam Backup Files to activate the backup options.

Mastercam will save your work automatically every ten minutes and keep the ten most recent versions
of your file.

3. Select the Files page to view the location of your backup files.

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