From the course: Learning Mastercam for SOLIDWORKS
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Work coordinate system
From the course: Learning Mastercam for SOLIDWORKS
Work coordinate system
- [Instructor] At this point we've established our fixtures, we've added in our parts, we've set up the stock or at least we've learned how to set up the stock and now we're ready to set up our work coordinate systems or our work offsets. Now to do that we need to choose which operation you want to go first so I'm assuming right here this is going to be your first operation one, this going to be operation two to face off the back and then maybe you can do a third operation here on the side of the part. So we can establish a separate work offset for each one of those and the way Mastercam does that is using the Plane Manager. Now over here I can click on Plane Manager under Mastercam 2019, click on Plane Manager. You can see we've already got a couple of planes established in here but we want to create our own plane. So before we do that though, we want to establish where we want that to be so if you zoom in here notice I've got the stock shown and then I have the part inside of the…
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