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Create 2D geometry for a chess piece

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Create 2D geometry for a chess piece

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- [Instructor] Three axis machining operations require the tool to travel in x, y and z during the course of a cut. For starters let's make a simple piece of geometry to work from this based on a photograph of a chess piece. Now to do this I'll press alt c on the keyboard and that brings up what are known as c hooks so you can think of these as little miniature programs that extend the functionality of master cam. The particular c hook I'm looking for is called rast two vec and that's a reference to raster and vector material, you know the two major formats of graphic images. Here in chapter three and oh three oh one I have pawn dot jpeg, that's the image I'll bring in. It'll have some options to automatically change this from a pixel-based image to a vector-based image. Not many changes will take place because I've prepared the image in sketch dark black and white. If you bring in a more photographic and fully colored image it will get more complicated. So I hit okay, by default…

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