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    Working with PowerMill

    The Working with PowerMill section describes how to find your way around PowerMill.

    Topics in this section
    • Screen layout
    • Setting up your working directories
    • Starting PowerMill in different modes
    • Starting PowerMill with a file already loaded
    • Using context menus
    • Active entities
    • Dialog context menus
    • Copying toolpath and tool data to the clipboard
    • Using typed coordinate input
    • To specify the direction of an item
    • Using the Expression Editor
    • PowerMill Functions
    • Creating custom menus
    • Customising column views
    • Using plugins
    • Accessing Help

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