Utility dialog
Introduction
This topic will explain the Utility dialog, describe how to access it, and will provide links to related topics.
Utility
While saving features has always been a handy tool, this practice has essentially been replaced by the User Defined Templates. With these templates, being accessible, and editable directly in the Machining Strategy page, there is really no need to save features through the CAM Tree any longer. For users that like the idea of User Defined Templates, but already have many saved features, the Utility dialog allows you to convert your existing saved features into User Defined Templates.
Navigation
To access the Utility dialog:
- In the BobCAM Command Manager tab, which can be found among the other
tabs, such as the Features, Sketch, Evaluate, and DimXpert tabs, click
Utility.
Utility Dialog
Convert Feature to Template
Directories of Saved Feature(s)
This section will list all of the directories that been selected to pull features from.
- Include subfolders
- With this check box cleared, any features contained in subfolders will not be included when Convert to Template is selected. 
- With this check box selected, any features contained in subfolders will be included when Convert to Template is selected. - Add Directory - opens the Browse For Folder dialog to allow you to specify the file path of the desired features to be converted. You can use this option to specify many different files paths to use. Each time you select one, click OK to add it to the list, and select the Add Directory option again to specify an additional path when necessary.
- Delete - removes the highlighted file path from the list.
- Delete All - removes all file paths from the list.
- Convert to Template - finds all saved features in the specified file path and places them in the Converted Templates list.
Converted Templates
This section will list all of the features to converted into User Defined Templates.
- Clean - removes all features from the list.
- OK - Turns all features in the Converted Templates list into User Defined Templates. These can be accessed from the associated Machining Strategy page.
