From the course: Learning Mastercam for SOLIDWORKS
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Fixture setup
- In this video, I'm going to be showing you some techniques for setting up and working with fixtures. Now you can see right here on the screen, I've got a couple of vises put on through the machine table. I've got my stock here, and I also have my finished parts. So notice this part right here, it actually has, if you zoom in here, you can see there is actually two parts right on top of each other. But they're actually the same part. So right over here you can see that's the part. And inside there I've have two different bodies, I have the original part and then I just made a rectangular block around that which is going to be the stock, that I'm going to be cutting that out of. Pretty simple to do just go back to that part, create a rectangular, boss extrude around the part. And then, don't merge bodies. And then you have it. That's a great way to setup your stock for pretty much any job. Right, now that we have that, let me show you some techniques for working with this fixture. So…
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