'General' Section

The ‘General’ section enables you to specify the environment in which machining will take place, and edit the properties of the milling machine.

The layout of the ‘General’ section changes depending on your action for the following:

Machine - clicking the drop-down arrow for the Machine displays a set of properties that CAM Assist needs to compute a toolpath strategy.
Machining mode - CAM Assist provides two modes:
- 3 Axis
- 3+2 Axis
Machining direction - this is displayed only when the selected machining mode is 3+2 Axis.

For information on each of these features, see below.

Features

The following table describes each feature in the ‘General’ section, as shown in the above screenshots.

Feature	Description
Tool library	The Mastercam tool library to use within CAM Assist.
Tool Summary	Shows a summary of the tool, including the following: Number of tools - the number of tools in the selected ‘Tool Library’. Number of tool for material - the number of tools in the selected ‘Tool library’ that can be used on the selected ‘Stock material’.
Stock material	CAM Assist will select tools, machining strategies, and cut parameters based on the selected material. For a full list of materials that you can use in CAM Assist, see Supported Materials.
Machine	While the Machine itself is configured within Mastercam, there is a set of properties that CAM Assist requires to compute toolpath strategies. Clicking the down arrow to the right of the ‘Machine’ displays those required properties: These values can be amended as follows: Enter the value directly into the box. Use the up/down arrow to increment/decrement the displayed value.
Machining mode		For more information on both Machining modes, see Machining Modes in the 'How-to Guides’.
Machining Direction	This section of the General tab is displayed when ‘3+2 Axis' is selected for the ‘Machining mode’. For information, see Machining Modes in the 'How-to Guides’.