From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Integrated CAM with HSMXpress

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Touring the interface

Touring the interface

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Integrated CAM with HSMXpress

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Touring the interface

- [Instructor] Now that I have HSMXpress installed, you can see here we have a tab at the top of the screen called CAM, and I've hidden the rest of the tabs that we're not currently using. If you want to show any of those tabs, you can right click on any one of the tabs, and turn on or turn off any one of these tool pallets that you'd like. We want the one down here called CAM and that's all we really need. We also might want to keep sketch and features on as well, and I also like to keep on direct editing and evaluate 'cause I pretty much use those tools all the time, but anyways, make sure at least that you have the CAM toolbar turned on. Now once you're in the CAM toolbar, you have this ribbon bar right up here at the top, and these are the basic tools we're going to be using throughout the manufacturing process or creating the tool paths to machine this component right here. So the first thing you're pretty much always going to do is you're going to start a job. As soon as you…

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