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ContourCAM
Editor
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The ContourCAM editor forms the connection between ContourCAM and your
CNC machines. It is in the editor that you can make changes in the NC code
programs, simulate NC code on-screen and communicate with the CNC
machines.
The main part of the editor is, as the name implies, a text editor. It works as most
other text editors. The size of the files you can edit is limited only by the amount
of memory Windows offers. And since Windows uses the hard drive as an expansion of the memory, you can work with file sizes of several mega-bytes of
memory.
As long you have enough memory there is no limit to the number of files that can
be read into the editor. The first nine files will be numbered from one to nine, and
you can quickly switch between them using the menu Window.
2.1 Editing files
When starting the editor there are no files in the editor. You can either read a file
using Files|Open (see section 2.4) or begin a new file using Files|New.
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