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One of my favorite Ron Branch quotes: You cant step over dollars to pick up pennies. Penny wise, dollar dumb.
Doesn't apply to what Bobs talking about, I just like the saying.
It takes 2.5 seconds to set up stock and makes life so much easier. It also gives the best roughing passes because Mastercam knows where to cut and where not to. Pointless not to use it. I guess we just have no imagination.
I always use a separate file for rouging and finishing. Less confusion... With the stock, try the lathe stock preview. And save that into the finishing file.
Works great!!!!
I don't like the face t/p. I use regular roughing and change the direction of the cut in the rough direction/angle drop down.
As far as the stock, I always draw my stock for the first operation, I use stock revolve then lathe stock preview after I finish the first operation and use it for the next operation and repeat.
How in the world can you even use Mastercam without it? I mean, unless you are just using wireframe to do simple single tool paths. Making a multi operation program with lots of tools would be a huge P.I.T.A. without levels.
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