Ok, one more question:
I am cutting a piece held in an "Alligator-Jaw" clamp - it's very long & skinny, and allows the material to be milled around the profile. The problem is my machine doesn't have enough Z-travel to get up & over the clamp, I have to go around it. Is there any way to force MC to follow a particular path when rapiding between roughing/finishing?
I do know about creating an STL of the clamp, but that won't work. I am using a keyseat cutter to cut inside the top-down footprint of the clamp. And since MC doesn't support keyseat cutters I'm telling it I have flat endmill of the same diameter. This large, imaginary endmill causes a collision with the clamp STL, whereas the real keyseat cutter does not.
dh
I am cutting a piece held in an "Alligator-Jaw" clamp - it's very long & skinny, and allows the material to be milled around the profile. The problem is my machine doesn't have enough Z-travel to get up & over the clamp, I have to go around it. Is there any way to force MC to follow a particular path when rapiding between roughing/finishing?
I do know about creating an STL of the clamp, but that won't work. I am using a keyseat cutter to cut inside the top-down footprint of the clamp. And since MC doesn't support keyseat cutters I'm telling it I have flat endmill of the same diameter. This large, imaginary endmill causes a collision with the clamp STL, whereas the real keyseat cutter does not.
dh