From the course: Creating a Guitar Body with RhinoCAM
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Simulating an individual toolpath - RhinoCAM Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Guitar Body with RhinoCAM
Simulating an individual toolpath
- RhinoCAM asks you to do a lot of visual abstraction in the beginning of a project before more concrete results can be displayed. If you look closely at the toolpaths we've generated, you'll see different colors on different parts of the path. These pertain to different kinds of motion like approach, cut, retract, and so on. Though somewhat helpful, the paths alone only deliver a fraction of the information that a full-blown cut simulation can provide. So now that we have a set of toolpaths here, we wanna get a sense of what they're actually gonna look like once you drill into the material. So to do that, I'll click here on the Simulate tab in the Machining Browser. And depending on how your visualization settings are clicked that should show you what your stock is gonna look like. If your window doesn't look like mine, you can hover over these little icons here, and see we can decide on whether our part is visible or not, whether the stock is visible. I wouldn't suggest turning on…
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