Plugging in Configuration Variables

david_santopietro

Hi all - Wondering if there is a way currently to set the depth of a cut based on the thickness of a material supplied by the Part Studio Variables? Instead of plugging in 3mm each time for the depth of cut, and then having to change it to 5mm on the next part, my hope is that we'll be able to access Variables and this will be automated? But I get that we're just getting started here. 

Thanks for the help. 

joe_dunne

We have plans for more control over default values.  It certainly is not very efficient currently.  Would love to hear any ideas you might have. One concept we are considering is  templates. Where you can create, save apply a template to your CAM Studio and this will set all the various default values.  

whatthebaek

edit: yknow, now that I've been able to sit with my difficulties for a bit while the comment waited for approval, I think I'm gonna redact my original comment haha.

Long story short, I was hoping to make the case again for templates and custom user variables since, depending on your setup, it can be a bottleneck for trying to learn and use CAM Studio in an applied real-life setting like Curt and others have. Usability takes a big hit and when I commented I felt like it'd make a decent impact on the learning curve for EVP participants. I end up having to change 8 or 9 default parameters minimum every time I create a toolpath to fit my setup, and if I change strategies I have to do it all over again. I have a micro milling machine, it's 50/55/50mm total travel lol, so basically any flat values that aren't percentages based off diameter or something similar would throw an error, take forever to generate, or need to be adjusted (think offsets, clearance heights, tolerances, etc).

But I'm certain yall have plenty well-defined road maps and timelines for CAM Studio, and I recognize this request is low-priority by comparison ha. At the end of the day this is a preview, and the focus is to share what's been done, rather than getting some streamlined thing to a select few.

If I need to get actual CAM work done I can get my needs met elsewhere rather than bothering the devs lol. So I'm just gonna sit tight n eagerly await launch :)

Cheers and thank you all for your incredibly hard work, it's truly thrilling and surreal to be able to run CAM in a browser.