The tooling and feed/speed databases are created using the INITDB Initialization program in FeatureCAM. This is the program that is run the first time you run FeatureCAM to create your initial database.
Select where your database is located:
On my local computer — Select this option to use the database on your PC.
On another computer that I will access over a network— Select this option to use an MS Access shared network database. Click Browse and browse to the location of the shared network database.
On a SQL Server — Select this option to use an SQL Server network database. Select the Server Name and the Database Name. To use SQL authentication, select SQL Server in the Authentication Mode list and enter your SQL Username and SQL Password. If you use SQL authentication, the Database Name list only displays databases to which you have access.
You may also want to use INITDB for the following reasons: