QUICK REFERENCE CARD
ICON FUNCTION SHORTCUT ICON FUNCTION SHORTCUT
About Mastercam Alt+V Pan Arrow keys
Analyze Entity F4 Paste Ctrl+V
AutoSave Alt+A Planes Manager Alt+L
Configure Mastercam Alt+F8 Redo Ctrl+Y
Copy to clipboard Ctrl+C Rotate Alt+Arrow keys
Cut to clipboard Ctrl+X Rotate Position Alt+F12
Delete Entities F5 Run Add-In Alt+C
Divide Shift+D Save Ctrl+S
Drafting Options Alt+D Save As Ctrl+Shift+S
Exit Mastercam Alt+F4 Select All Ctrl+A
Fit Alt+F1 Set From Entity Alt+X
Grid Settings Alt+G Shading toggle Alt+S
Gview–Back Alt+3 Shading Translucency toggle Ctrl+T
Gview–Bottom Alt+4 Show Axes F9
Gview–Front Alt+2 Show Gnomons Alt+F9
Gview–Isometric Alt+7 Show/hide displayed toolpaths Alt+T
Gview–Left Alt+6 Solids Manager Alt+I
Gview–Previous View Alt+P Toolpaths Manager Alt+O
Gview–Right Alt+5 Trim to Entities Shift+T
Gview–Top Alt+1 Trim to Point Shift+P
Help Alt+H Unzoom 80% Alt+F2
Hide/Unhide Alt+E Unzoom Previous/50% F2
Levels Manager Alt+Z Undo Ctrl+Z
Modify Length Shift+E Window F1
Multi-Threading Manager Alt+M
Map the above Mastercam functions to a custom keyboard shortcut:
Choose File, Options, Customize Ribbon. Then click the
Customize button to open the Customize Keyboard dialog box.
Disable gnomon selection G Snap to view toggle S
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ON-SCREEN EDITING TOOLS
Dynamic Gnomon
The Dynamic Gnomon helps you manipulate geometry and planes
interactively. The gnomon comprises three axes connected at an origin
sphere. Choose from the selection points listed here to apply different
types of transformations to either the gnomon or your selected geometry.
1 Align 5 XY Orient
2 Translate Along 6 2D Rotate
3 3D Translate/Polar 7 3D Rotate
4 Gnomon/
Geometry Switch
See Mastercam Help for more information.
Polar control Delta control
The Polar control consists The Delta control consists
of the origin sphere, a of the origin sphere and
rotation compass, and a three single-axis arrows
green single-axis arrow. that can be manipulated
It can rotate as well as independently.
edit the position of entities
in the graphics window. Hover over any single-axis arrow until it highlights.
Click and drag the arrow to a new position using the
Rotate control
ruler to guide your placement.
The Rotate control can
only rotate on-screen To rotate entities on screen, hover over the blue circle
entities within the current until the rotation compass appears. Rotate the control
Cplane. It consists of the or enter a value in the on-screen field. Rotating from
origin sphere and a inside the compass allows you to snap to angular
rotation compass. increments. Manipulating either control outside the
compass ignores the snap control.
Top-level Editing
Directly edit wireframe geometry without interacting with a dialog box. Double-click an entity to enter the function. If no
other function is active, a combination of spheres, arrows, and buttons display.
• Click and drag a sphere to move a point, line
endpoint, or the center point of an arc.
• Click and drag the blue midpoint sphere to
• Hover over a sphere to display the arrows. reposition a line or spline.
• Click and drag the green or red arrows to shorten or lengthen a line or
change the sweep angles of an arc. Splines can only be lengthened.
• Click and drag the blue arrow to create an offset parallel line/spline or
change the radius of an arc.
• Toggle the Move button to move or copy a point, line, spline, or arc.
• The Flip button inverts an arc to display its complement.
• The ABS/REL button toggles the display of the sweep angle value
of an arc between its absolute and relative values.
You cannot edit multiple entities with top-level editing. To do that, use the Analyze function. To display the Analyze dialog box
from the top-level, press the [End] key. You can continue to use the new graphic controls as well as change entity attributes
such as level, color, and line style. Press the [End] key again when you are finished.
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