SharpCam Version Changes

Version Changes
1.5.0 (Not yet released)
  1. New command added: 'Solid Simulation' to the View menu and toolbar. Advanced Solid verification of toolpaths. This feature simulates material being machined in real time. Features include.
    • Collision report.
    • Stop when collision detected during rapid move or with none cutting area of tool.
    • Colour Material Stock by tool or operation.
    • Stop after each move or each Tool or each Operation.
    • Support for multiple tool shapes.
  2. New sub menu command added: 'Material Stock' to the View menu and toolbar. Allows creation of Material Stock for Solid Simulation by these methods:
    • Auto Cube - Creates a cube that bounds all toolpaths.
    • From STL Model - Converts an STL model to Material Stock.
    • Extrude Contours - Converts selected Contours to Material Stock, with holes. No limit to number of Material Stock's created.
    • Edit Z values - Change to height of existing Material Stock.
  3. Tool Manager now supports these new Tool Types:
    • Face Mill.
    • Ball Nose.
    • Bull Nose.
    • Taper.
    • Reamer.
    • Bore.
    • Countersink.
    • Spot Drill.
  4. Tool Manager now support tool filtering. Shows only the specified Type of tool is the list.
  5. New command added: 'Thread Milling' to the Machine menu and toolbar. Machine threads. with helical interpolation
  6. New command added: 'Dimensions' to the Draw menu and toolbar. Creates dimensions of various types.
  7. Fixed - Printing ignoring hidden layers and not printing Text.
1.1.6
  1. Sub Routines: Profiling, Pocketing and Drilling operations now support Sub Routines for reduced program size when performing multiple passes.
  2. Perpendicular Entry/Exit: Profiling now supports the ability to have the entry/exit line perpendicular to the entry/exit arc, as opposed to always being tangential.
  3. Control CRC: New 'Control' option added to the 'Cutter Radius Comp' drop down box when Profiling. This allows the blue print dimensions to be output, therefore using the machine control to perform the compensation.
  4. New command added: 'Polygon' to the Draw menu and toolbar. Creates polygons with the given number of sides. Used to create hexagons etc.
  5. New command added: 'Bolt Hole Circle' to the Draw menu and toolbar. Creates circles on a Pitch Circle Diameter.
  6. MRU list: The file menu now has a Most Recently Used file list.
  7. New Property added to the CCWInterpolation and CWInterpolation event argument of the Machine Definition:
    • Helical - A value indicating if the circular interpolation is considered helical.
    • StartPointAngle - The polar angle of the start point.
    • EndPointAngle - The polar angle of the end point.
  8. Fixed - Cycle time and simulation speed error when using Rigid Tapping.
1.1.0
  1. New command added: 'Text' to the Draw menu and toolbar. Creates outline text from any font installed on the computer. Text can then be machined.
  2. Full support for STL models. STL models can now be selected, deleted and transformed.
  3. New command added: 'Bounding Rectangle' to the Draw menu and toolbar. Creates a rectangle that encloses all selected Contours.
  4. New sub menu command added: 'Font' to the File menu. Allows the loading, saving and installation of user defined fonts.
  5. New command added: 'Circle - Centre, Point' to the Draw menu and toolbar. Creates a circle about the given centre point and a point that lies on the circumference.
  6. New Property added to the CCWInterpolation and CWInterpolation event argument of the Machine Definition:
    • ApproximatedLineSegments - A collection of line segments that approximate the arc. Used for controls that do not have helical/circular interpolation.
  7. Fixed - Error report dialog being shown when regenerating toolpaths after transforming contours in an invalid way. More friendly message now shown with Help button.
  8. Fixed - Number of small issues relating to layers.
  9. Fixed - Number box displaying error message when using Polish operating system.
1.0.5
  1. New command added: 'Remote Support' to the Help menu. This allows remote connection to the users PC for training and support purposes.
  2. When points are found in a Dxf/Dwg file, a dialog is now shown, allowing circles of a specified diameter to be created using the found points as the centre. Points as an entity do not exist in SharpCam, therefore this feature allows points to be read.
  3. New command added: 'Send Nc code Direct to Machine' at the top of the Nc code tab. For controls that support this feature, like the Mach3, this enables the Nc code to be loaded directly in to the control.
  4. Layers capability added. A new tab has been added to the Part Manager, where layers can now be managed.
  5. Cycle time now available in the ProgramStart event argument of the Machine Definition. The cycle time, for example, can be output in a comment at the beginning of the program. The following properties are available in the GeneralSettings event argument relating to the cycle time:
    • ChipToChipAtcTime - The time taken to return to the ATC position, perform the tool change and return back to the workpiece.
    • RapidTraverseRate - The rapid traverse rate.
    • RapidPositionAccelerationDeceleration - The time for a each Rapid move that should be added to the cycle time due to Acceleration/Deceleration.
  6. New Property added to the ProgramEnd event argument of the Machine Definition:
    • NcCode - Gets the Nc code generated so far, allowing changes to be made, for example by using search and replace.
  7. New Properties added to the GeneralSettings event argument of the Machine Definition:
    • NcCodeExtension - The extension (without the period) to use in the Save Nc Code dialog box.
    • DefaultNcCodeSaveLocation - The default location that the Save Nc Code dialog box shows.
  8. New Property added to the NcCode property of the Machine Definition:
    • IncrementLineNumber - Increments the line number but does not output the line number.
  9. New overloaded LineNumber method added to the NcCode property of the Machine Definition:
    • LineNumber(string prefix, string format) - Allows the line number to be formatted.
  10. Exit Ramp added to Profiling. Before you could only ramp to depth, now you can ramp out as well.
1.0.0
  1. First Release.