PRIME MOTIONThe workshop manual
Prime Motion Help
One Control screen. Two ways to work.
Control puts the position readout, command rail, machine view and cards on one screen. Turn the tablet to put the cards beside your work in landscape, or below it in portrait.
Find your next step
Follow the manual in order, or go straight to the task at hand.
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Getting started
From first launch to a finished part.
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Machines & connection
What Prime Motion talks to, and how it knows what it is talking to.
03
The safety model
What the app refuses to let you do, and why each refusal exists.
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Position & work coordinates
Where the machine thinks it is, and how to tell it where the work is.
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Designs
Managing the things you make, before they are toolpaths.
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Design — modelling
Sketching and 3D modelling.
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Manufacturing — CAM
Turning a model into a program the machine can run.
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Parameters
Driving a model by numbers you can change.
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Tutorials — make complete parts
Six parts, built by hand, checked with Outline and Air Run, then cut on your machine.
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Running a job
From a loaded program to a finished part.
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Tools, Macros, Wizards & History
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Settings reference
Every sub-tab, field by field.
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Information management
Where your files come from, and where they go.
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