GI George
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I would go to top view, rotate Gview 90 deg., name and save current view. go into your tool path, planes set your WCS to top and then your T and C plane set to the 90 deg that you made should work. May be someone else has a better way?
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I live in Northern MI and drive almost 2 hrs for work right now down by Saginaw.
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I would go with that. It should be water tight if it is drawn right. Is it reverse engineered like from a point cloud or scan data?
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I know an stl is a bunch of triangles. You say even as a solid it does the same thing? I would think that would work.
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Are you starting from a solid block that you could save off stls as you go though verify. It's hard to say without see what you are working on.
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I think an stl has to be a solid, no holes, everything trimmed. Can you trim everthing and make it water tight without much trouble?
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It varies. Mostly tooling. I would like to see what you have. I used to make forging dies. It was all 3d work, but when the economy started to tank I decided to make a switch to a job shop running a different software and a different type of machining. I have learned alot making the switch.
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Thanks. I have been using Mastercam for about 2 years off and on while running two Haas machines. I have the 2d stuff down pretty good but the 3d I want to work on some more. 90% of what we do is 2d work. I make 3d paths and I am just not sure what all the settings are or how to control certain things.
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I am looking for some different sample parts to hone my Mastercam skills on. I am farily new to Mastercam having used Powermill, VX, and Think 3 before. The company I work for won't send me for any type of formal training. I would like to work on 3d tool paths as well as 4 and 5 axis. Thanks for any help you might have.
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Make sure that your rads are a full radius, that there is no splines or little peices. I've had to make new tools or even redraw rads before when I've run into that problem.