The Part Library dialog enables you to create commonly used configurations of objects and save them for easy use in FeatureCAM parts. For example, the library could include a collection of lines and arcs, single features with customized attributes for specific applications, or a collection of features that you use regularly.
To display the Part Library dialog, select Home tab > Clipboard panel > Part Library.
The Tree View displays the contents of a specific part library. These libraries contain objects, which you can paste into FeatureCAM parts, and folders which are used to organize the objects.
Above the Tree View, the dialog displays whether the current part library is 64-bit or 32-bit.
Add Selected — Click this button to add the selected objects to the library. If multiple objects are selected, they are added to the library as a
stream and displayed in the tree view with the stream
icon. A stream is a temporary group. When these objects are pasted into a document, the stream grouping is removed and just the objects are added directly to the document. If you want a permanent grouping, create a group of objects and then add the group to the part library.
Add Folder — Click this button to add a folder to the part library for storing objects.
Delete — Click this button to remove the selected object from the part library.
Rename — Click this button to renames the selected object.
Paste — Click this button to apply the Paste special command to the selected objects from the part library. The name of the pasted object is based on the name of the object in the library. If you paste multiple copies of the same type of object, the subsequent objects are named with a _1, _2 suffix. The only exception is a stream object. For stream objects, the objects are pasted directly into the document using the names of the objects contained in the stream.
Import — Click this button to import objects from a part library into the current library.
Export — Click this button to export all objects in the current library to an external library file. These files have a .nam extension.
Open library — Click this option to open a part library.
New library — Click this button to create a new part library.