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    Hello all!

    I been viewing this site for some time now and decided to make a profile finally.

    I work for a high end architectural firm and we are looking to upgrade our cam software. I am relatively new to CAM and CNC operation and have been here for about 8 months and we currently use Router CIM to do all of our programming.

    We are taking a heavy interest in Alphacam and I have acquired a trial of it to give it a test drive.

    So my super complicated question to anyone with experience using Alphacam...

    Can you change the units of the software to inches? Drawing units, tools, machines, everything. I have been messing around for a few hours and can't seem to find a way to set the change the units like you can with any other software.

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    Default Re: First Post and Alphacam question

    Scale command 1”= 25.4mm

    or just draw in mm for mm


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    We have a 10 year old version at work. I took a quick look, and don't see a specific setting for inches/mm's. I guess units are whatever you want them to be.
    I see that tools do have an inch/mm setting, and I guess the post processor also can have an effect. We have a custom post that came with our machine, which outputs inch units and metric feedrates.

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    Default Re: First Post and Alphacam question

    Quote Originally Posted by mdrum93 View Post
    Hello all!

    I been viewing this site for some time now and decided to make a profile finally.

    I work for a high end architectural firm and we are looking to upgrade our cam software. I am relatively new to CAM and CNC operation and have been here for about 8 months and we currently use Router CIM to do all of our programming.

    We are taking a heavy interest in Alphacam and I have acquired a trial of it to give it a test drive.

    So my super complicated question to anyone with experience using Alphacam...

    Can you change the units of the software to inches? Drawing units, tools, machines, everything. I have been messing around for a few hours and can't seem to find a way to set the change the units like you can with any other software.
    Hi,

    "Alphacam does not use imperial (1/2", .25" 1ft., etc) or metric (1mm, 1cm, 1m, etc.) values, rather a unitary value system. Therefore, entering a value of 1 will give you 1 unit, entering .5 will give you 1/2 of a unit. This unit can be read by the user as imperial measurements or metric" - taken from a Alphacam help.

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