• General
• Machinebar
• Simulation - NC View
• Marker on surfaces
• Operation INSERT - Drop out security
• Operation Conic
• CAD
• PCam Extensions
• PCad Selektion
• IGES Import
• PP Changes

General

• PCam supports WindowsME
• The program PCamReg.exe can be used to register or unregister PCam components
• PCam has now a chinese,  a portugese and a svedish version
• The textfont setting (Tools - program view- Fonts) inside the TreeView will now be saved

Simulation - NC View

• After a PP run the simulation and the NC code is rappresented in a new way. The method of working remains the same

MachineBar

• Using the toolbar "show machinebar"   you can show or hide the machinebar
• For every licensed postprocessor PCam will during the installation create a machine inside the machinebar
• This machines have a lot of properties you can modify (right mouse click on a machine symbol will call the needed menu) 
• Before running the postprocessor  you have to select a machine

Marker on surfaces

• Using the operation INSERT you can define events on contours or surfaces. The place where this event should happen can be done defining a distance or a marker. Within PCam 5.0 the definition of a marker is also possible on surfaces
• In addition: the marker will be displayed with a white square

Operation Conic

• a ISO radius can now be defined at the begin or at the end of a contour. Before PCam generated in situations like this a standardconic. Only one arc is allowed at the begin or at the end of a contour.

Operation INSERT - Drop out security

• For punching dies a surface can automatically be changed inserting this event. 

CAD: multiple rounding, modify rounding, Splines, Ellipses, multiple lines

• a sequence of lines and arcs can be rounded    Choose the function, type in the radius and select the sequence
• Existing roundings ca be modifyed. Select the arc - right mouse click to get the menu - Choose "modify rounding" 
• a tangentdirection at the begin and at the end of a spline can be defined 
• there exist now the element: ellipse
• these function has been enlarged. Colinear lines or arcs with the same centerpoint and the same radius will be reorganized 

PCam Extensions

• One geometry can be worked on within an extention. The result can now be used (transfered) in another extention just by choosing this extention 

PP Changes

• More or less all postprocessors had some changes, for example  Charmilles with ISO radius, AGIE Vision Cut (before this PP was called Evolution) with a lot of new options inside the tool, AGIE VisionCut 2 (one postprocessor which uses the AGIEVison machine like a HSS)

IGES Import

• the following elements will be read in:

1. ARC 100
2. COMPOSITECURVE 102 
3. CONICARC 104 (ellipse only)
4. COPIOUSDATA 106
5. PLANE 108
6. LINE 110
7. PARAMETRICSPLINECURVE 112
8. POINT 116
9. RULEDSURFACE 118
10. SURFACEOFREVOLUTION 120
11. TABULATEDCYLINDER 122
12. TRANSFORMATIONMATRIX 124
13. FLASH 125
14. RATIONALBSPLINECURVE 126
15. CURVEONPARAMETRICSURFACE 142
16. TRIMMEDPARAMETRICSURFACE 144
17. SUBFIGUREDEFINITION 308
18. ASSOCIATIVITYINSTANCE 402
19. SUBFIGUREINSTANCE 408 

• During the import it's possible to rotate the data along the axes XYZ. To do this, you have to set the system before importing the data: Tools, Geometries import/export, IGES, Properties
• An existing datastructure inside the IGES file, e.g. borderline, surface, ecc. will be generated in PCam and can be used to select the desired information. 

PCad Selektion

Inside "View geometries" (or also QuickView of a geometry) you can now select elements