Multiple Bodies for Stock?

[Bill H]

What's the best method for defining Stock using multiple solid bodies?

[Guest]

Kind of depends on what you're doing.....

I do a lot of tombstone programming, I will save out my arrayed stock as an stl file and then use that file.....

 

Sometimes it makes more sense, just to connect the solids using a small solid and a Boolean add to create one pc....

For fixtures, we can have multiple separate solids, stock is still not there yet......unless I missed the boat along the way

Edited June 4, 2017 by Guest

[Bill H]

Thanks!  Boolean Add was just what I was looking for!  The bodies were in contact with one another, so I did have to add any connectors.

[jeff]

On 6/4/2017 at 0:30 PM, JParis said:

stock is still not there yet......unless I missed the boat along the way

Nope, you haven't missed the boat. It's still incapable of using multiple models.

It would be nice if we could.   (huge pet peeve of mine with Mastercam)

[Jayson Kramer]

So what I do is make solids of the stock. the first thing I do is make a stock Model using all the solids I pick. So now I have blocks for my Verify or to machine against.
Like the picture.