From the course: Creating a Guitar Body with RhinoCAM

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Preparing the model for flipping

Preparing the model for flipping - RhinoCAM Tutorial

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Preparing the model for flipping

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- Bridges will suspend our guitar body once it's been cut out, but we still need to add a couple more elements to guide our work. Now we'll establish a floor for the guitar contour and a center axis for flipping. So, the floor I'm referring to is really just a plane that prevents the CNC from cutting all the way down into the bed. We sort of have to give the Toolpath a place to stop on the C axis. And this is pretty simple, I'm just going to open up the surface menu and pick one of these simple corner to corner planes, back out, and then draw this in the top view. And the only thing that matters about this dimension is it has to be larger than all the materials that are contained within the model already. When I look in from the side, I can see that the plane, by default, is landing here at Z0, so I want to move that down to a little more than halfway into the body of the guitar. Our model is 1.75 inches thick, so let's move this down 1.25 inches. Now the reason we've done it 1.25, if…

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