Thanks for the reply. just out of curiousity, are there experienced programmers out there that always input the vice or other items that are holding the stock. Or is that a rookie thing?

I am refreshing my Fusion CAM learning in order to learn Mastercam. My goal here is to do some tutorials on Fusion then immediately replicate them on MC. I pulled up the below vice I imported into Fusion and made the jaw, parallels, and stock all parametric. First, I don't know if this is overkill and if an experienced CAM programmer would laugh at this. Regardless, is this something anyone does in MC? For instance in fusion I was able to select the vice parts for collision issues. Thanks in advance for your thoughts. https://imgur.com/B5gaYrI

I'm new to CAM, very experienced in CAD. I'm going thru this Tom Stikkelman tutorial. BTW, this dude has a voice that could soothe the devils soul. Anyway, 1st question is I see dimensions on the 1st picture attached....I don't see anywhere where this is an option, I thought MC was no constraints and no dims? Next when he is setting up Stock to leave, why in the world is the Z extra stock in the x direction and X stock to leave basically in the y direction? Crazy confusing. Lastly, these pics are overhead view, and most lathes I've seen you left hand is closer to the jaws, why are the toolpaths reversed in this? Thanks so much.

Thank you. Brutal when learning a new package and you can't do the most simple thing. Lost the damn plane and toolpath panel last night and took me 10 minutes to get it back.

Brand new here, just opened the learning package. So I see MC has some sketching ability with no dimensioning or constraints. When you open MC up it highlights the XY plane and I can sketch things. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to sketch on a different plane. I can't click a plane and if I rotate to a certain plane view it warns you you are perpendicular to the plane.