Quick Tips & Tricks

This article covers how to enable the 3Dconnexion 3D mouse in BobCAD-CAM.

This article will cover how to setup and adjust the Default BobCAD Version when loading in .STEP, .IGES, and other similar file types (by double-clicking on the file to open BobCAD). 

The default program number is set to 100 in BobCAD-CAM. This article will take you through the steps on how to change this number inside of BobCAD at the job level.

If you are missing a CAM Tree, Posting window, CAD Tree or any of the 11 available window panes inside of BobCAD-CAM, this document will cover how to turn those windows off and on or will show you how to get them back if they appear to be missing. 

When creating a mill 2 Axis Feature and the toolpath is not starting in the correct position follow the steps below to modify the starting location of your toolpath.

Chain selection is an easy tool to select connected closed and open loops of wireframe with one to two clicks of your mouse.  This articles will provide details on how to use the chain selection function of BobCAD.

When one of the BobCAD managers (CAD Tree, CAM Tree, Data Entity, Etc.) becomes unresponsive and will not unblank then follow the steps in this page to reset the User Interface back to factory settings to bring these managers back up.

The Quick Trim function is used to delete or trim wireframe entities in the graphics area. This article will give a quick tutorial on how to use this function in BobCAD.

This document will give a brief tutorial on how to quickly toggle the Snap Points, Construction Lines, Views to active UCS, and Fly Outs on and off.

This article will provide information on how to create and modify short-cut keys in BobCAD to more quickly pull up commands in the software.