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fikusvisual cam 13 Whats new ENVIRONMENT - New Gradient toolbars

- Deactivate the Beep sound (Tools Preferences General)

- Language selection under Tools Preferences - General

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- Reduction of the number of digits in the fast edit bar (4 digits)

- Cutting planes for visualization

- Top View + Zoom extend icon on the preview window.

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- Delete a layer with entities (with confirmation).

- Zoom In / Out configuration (under Tools Preferences Environment)

- Application to make security copy (under fikus/bin)

- Automatic version update by Internet (also news, user function, postprocessors,).

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- Dialog box to define the Filename when selecting the Send by e-mail function.

- 30 days Evaluation license (no key codes needed, just a plug)

- Improved support for big files.

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CAD

- New function to adapt text on one, two curves or one surface (Draw Utilities Adapt text on curves)

- Force to Horizontal / Vertical lines and entry motions (WireEDM and Lathe) by pressing the ALT key.

- Ordinate dimension (2D and 3D)

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- Added the Join function in the Right Mouse Button menu.

- Ruled surface with correspondences

- Cone

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- Cylinder

- Flat surface

- Surfaces Intersection

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- Active plane surface intersection

- Projection onto surface

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- Unwrap Curve function

- Simplify curve (under Modify Transform Simplify Curve). Reduction of the number of elements of a composite curve according to a tolerance)

- Possibility to define a taper angle in the Extrusion function

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- Approximate curves by arcs function improved

- Set the CAD reference point on a vertex of the bounding box

- Option As active in all the CAD transformation functions (Move Rotate Scale Mirror 2D Symmetry Between UCS)

- Option to move the CAD reference point to a defined coordinate.

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- DXF read function improved (text and dimensions support) - DXF write function improved (different planes geometry) - STL read function improved (for big files)

- Function to approximate a spline from a cloud of points or/and simplify a polygonal

curve (Modify Generate Approximate cloud of points )

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- Fix Geometry user function (delete duplicated, discontinuities, overlapped, loops and information)

- Improved C2F and F2C utility to send data from Cimatron to Fikus and vice versa.

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CAM GENERAL - Open automatically the FICEDW (G-code editor) application after postprocessing.

- Deactivate verify function after process parameter changes (Tools Preferences CAM).

- Application to define the Read G-Code parameters (File Read G-Code Configure).

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- Invert option in Sort function

- The multiprocess VIS files are saved inside the Fikus VCM file.

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WIREEDM - Dialog to define the XY and UV heights when opening a 4X Wire G-code with the Read G-Code function.

- Information in simulation (threading, cut wire, line, arc, line fast)

- Simulate the first movement of a WireEDM toolpath (From 0 to the entry motion start point). - Define the remnant length by selecting a point on the geometry - Option to analyze a surface (2X or 4X surface) in WireEDM part definition (If a Wire part is going to be defined by surfaces, the system will analyze the part in order to discriminate between 2X or 4X surface).

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- Show / Hide nozzle from the CAM Tree

- Geometry for direct process (dont check for overlapped entities, closed contours,)

- Use of the surface isoparametric curves to auto-synchronize the part.

- Sodick Wizard for WireEDM (under request) - Mitsubishi Wizard for WireEDM (under request)

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LATHE - Internal / External chuck

- Maximum width for slots in Lathes Wizard

- Overlap distance for Internal / External zones working with two Chucks.

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- Automatic length for automatic entry motion in Wizard - Tool definition for all kind of processes (external / internal / front)

- No need to define entry motion for Thread processes (by default 45 degrees) - Predefined entry motions (tangent / normal / angle / geometry)

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- Exit motion for cut off function in rapid

- Different offset for Z and X axis

- Visual information for Profiling processes working condition

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- Multi-turret

- Gantt (for synchronism)

- Shaped thread (no standard threads)

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- ACME Thread

- Time correction factor for Lathe Report

- Cimatron simulator and verifier support

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