Wire Tabs (need more offset)

[Travis2282]

When I am wiring out a punch, I am doing 1 rough, leave a tab,reverse path for my skim, then cut tab off. How can i leave a couple thou. to grind off on the tab. I am new to the wiring in mastercam. Thanks

[Oppiz]

Here's one way to do that. Break the last entity in your chain the length you want your tab to be. Your first operation will be a contour with a partial chain on your punch with the 1st entity being the start of your punch and last being the entity you broke but not including the last segment (tab). Next do another operation with just the tab being the only entity in your cut. There in your power setting you can either change your wire offset or your stock to leave to allow extra material for grinding.

[Del.]

Travis, Just use the same power settings and offsets that you used on your rough pass.It should default to that or you can make it do it.

[Travis2282]

ok,will try thanks for the help guys.