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What Andy's talking about is that Visual Mill keeps the operations as distinct objects. So you have an operations 'tree' and you select the geometry to apply them to. If you delete the geometry, the operation is still there and you can select new or different geometry. It's like MasterCAM in that sense. You can see in the screenshot that the operations list is on the left, and when you click on the 'Geometry' tab under each one you can add or remove surfaces from that toolpath. You can save a MasterCAM file of operations without any geometry in it.



Now, whether MadCAM does that or not I cannot remember

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Ok guys here are two videos with Joakim explaining how this works in Madcam.....I discovered a lot of new goodies this morning.

Will try posting each video in a reply as the tube button does not seem to want two of them.

Mike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkq4kLp ... u3_E-hKsXA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkq4kLp ... u3_E-hKsXA

Try as I might, I could not embed the videos directly from Youtube and I tried the youtube button to put the link in. One video worked once but when I added the second video, it would not work. So I tried to edit my post and now neither of them will show up.

I apologize for the links, but that is all I have right now. You have to watch the whole video to see what he is talking about, and I emailed him a question about the guitar. I ask if it were a completely different kind of guitar, different pickups, neck pocket, shape and radii would it still work. He said he just did not have another guitar model to show but that it didn't even have to be a guitar as long as it needed the basic same strategies!

After watching the script vid, I am going to have to learn scripting in Rhino.

I hope this helps all our Rhino/Madcam users to be able to better use their software. I know I have learned a lot from this thread and I apologize to the op but this kinda seemed to fit here. If you have questions pm me. If you need support, at least those areas I can support you in, pm me.

Mike

Outstanding--thanks Mike!

Dave

Question. What would be a way to flip that model and have the tool paths aligned correctly?
Thanks mike.


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Ken

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Is there another video?


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Ken if I am following you correctly, that would be done with a fixture using index pins. The tool paths only follow the model.

Mike

No sir just the two. Is there something specific?

Mike

Great videos!

So glad to learn how easy the scripting is