Levels, Sets, and Clamps

Projects can directly contain many levels and sets. They are shown in the Explorer under the Levels, Sets and Clamps branch of the tree. Clamps are a special type of level that interacts exclusively with setups.

Levels and sets are controlled by menus. They help you to organise the model data. Levels in PowerMill work in the same way as in PowerShape. Any level information in PowerShape is automatically transferred across to PowerMill with the model.

If you want to organise your model data then you need to create additional levels and sets, then transfer data between the levels and sets.

There are several rules about levels and sets:

• Each entity can only be on one level. You cannot have the same entity in two different levels.
• Each entity can be on more than one set, or in no set. You can have the same entity in two different sets, in a set and in a level or just in one level.
• Deleting a project deletes all the levels and sets
• Deleting all the levels and sets deletes the model.
• Sets and levels cannot have the same name. So you cannot have a set called Hub and level called Hub.