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Second operation setup

Second operation setup

From the course: Learning Mastercam for SOLIDWORKS

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Second operation setup

- Now that we have operation one set up in our machine, let's go ahead and set up our secondary operation or maybe even our third operation. To do that's pretty straight forward and simple. Now you can see here we've already got the piece we're machining here. Let's go ahead and hold down CTRL on our keyboard and just drag out a copy of that part. Now you can see I still have the stock around that part and I want to hide that so come over here to that part and if you go down into the feature manager here, you can see there's two solid bodies and this one here I can just hide so you just have the part. Now let's go ahead and rotate that around so you're looking at the bottom of the part. So we're going to be doing operation number two there and then let's go ahead and copy out that parallel. So here's that parallel, CTRL copy, bring that out and let's go ahead and mate everything together. So go over here to mate. I'm going to choose this front face here to the parallel. I'm going to…

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