Styles Are Awesome

[Bob La Londe]

As Dick Greyson said, "Holy rusted metal Batman!" 

I've always been to busy to play with them when sitting in front of the design computer, but after seeing a video on them recently I knew I'd have to learn more.  Yesterday I spent about three hours playing with and learning about styles.

I had built a library of MOPs I use all the time in my main template file.  Yesterday I deleted almost every one of them.  Styles are are going to save me many thousands of hours. 

[lloydsp]

Darn you, Bob!

Now I'm going to have to make the time to explore them, also!

DANG!

Lloyd

[Dragonfly]

You're not alone 

[Garyhlucas]

Where is the video?

[Bob La Londe]

It's called CAM Styles,

" Styles replace a system of Templates that were used in previous
versions of CamBam and provided a similar purpose."

watch the video here; http://www.cambam.info/vids/CAM-Styles/
read about it here; http://www.cambam.info/doc/plus/cam/CAMStyles.htm

[dh42]

Hello,

I agree, styles are very, very useful and speed up the mop creation.

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David

Edit: do you have any idea of how Andy do that ? ... (the PP list is not attached to the grid but shown on the drawing area)

[Bob La Londe]

I've been doing CAM for a test mold most of the day today.  Normally I would have been done and probably had it cut by now, but for each operation I think is even halfway common I am creating a new style.  When I actually create the MOP it takes 5-10 seconds and its ready to create code.  This is SLICK.  

I found if I use the default style library and the default tool library it integrates very nicely.  Even creating the styles is getting faster.  I really like that I can copy the properties from a MOP or another style and paste them to a style I am creating.  This way I can go back to old jobs and use proven parameters for each new style.  

Oh, freaking yeah.  

It is a little annoying that the XMLs are in the hidden All Users/Application Data folder.  It will make backing them up a little more tedious.   

[dh42]

another helpful function is the "New CAM style variant" that allow to creates different variations from a base style.

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David

[dh42]

Re

It is a little annoying that the XMLs are in the hidden All Users/Application Data folder.  It will make backing them up a little more tedious.  

You can change that ; creates a new folder in your Document folder (as example), saying called CambamData, in cambam, menu tools/browse system folder -> you fall on the hidden folder that contain all the style, pp, tools etc.

copy all and paste all in your new CambamData foder, then go to tools/options, then change the path for the system files in the  "System Path" to reflect the path of your CambamData folder.

The other advantage of this, is that when you re-instal or update CB, your style, pp, tools etc are not overwriten by the installer.

it also allow a way to share all library on the network if you use more that one computer

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David