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I am working on a 72" x 68" x 6" steel plate. I need to drill and tap around 250 holes in it.

 

My machine won't reach all the holes, so I have to rotate and set the plate a total of 6 times.

 

 

So, I made 3 machine groups. 1 for my short side right corner, 1 for my short side left corner, and 1 for my long side middle.

 

 

I created a new view, which was a copy of the top view, and set the origin to the appropriate corner of my plate.

 

 

 

My issue is all three machine groups are using the origin of the same view, and I don't know how to change it. Even when I go into the view manage, select the view I want, set all my planes to it,and set the origin for that view, the operations still use the same origin as before. It's kind of a pain.

 

 

 

Hoping i'm overlooking something simple.

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Before you create a toolpath, have the WCS that you want to use active. If you need to change the WCS of one or more toolpaths select the toolpath(s) you want to change the WCS of then right click them and select "EDIT SELECTED OPERATIONS>>EDIT COMMON PARAMETERS". Then in the window click check box next to the "PLANES" button. Set your WCS accordingly.

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