I'm trying to evaluate Sheetcam by working through the tutorials, but somehow I must be totally missing what this program is supposed to do.
In Tutorial 1 I'm fine through the point where you've set up dimensions, defined the machine, the workpiece size and defined a tool, that all makes sense.
Defining a Contour makes sense to me, although the Layer selection is a little confusing. Sometimes when I've tried the tutorial no layers were available to select, but sometimes TEXT was available. I don't get that and where the Label names are supposed to come from and how they are supposed to be used.
The next step "Generate the Tool Paths" I really don't get. The Help file at that point says you will be generating the tool paths, but I don't understand how you are supposed to do that at this point. The Help file shows the letters CAM having appeared in the display, where were those supposed to come from?
And once they are there, how do you edit them?
Same deal for creating pockets, I don't get how you actually create them.
What am I missing here?
Thanks,
Paul T.