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Toolpathing the bottom of a part

Toolpathing the bottom of a part

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Toolpathing the bottom of a part

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So, flipping over a part for flip mailing is one of the more confusing things you'll do in the machine shed, so have no fear, I'm here to show you how to make this simple and to avoid mistakes. So, I've already got a pair of tool paths prepared from the top of this material. That's a horizontal reffing pass and a parallel finishing pass. So, I'll head to the program tab first and to keep things organized, pull up this little fellow here and create a MOp Set, or a machining operation set. So this is just purely organizational. I'll call this one Top, and I'll move these two in there. Okay, now I also want to create layers for the elements in my model. So, let's make one for Top and one for Bottom as well. Currently, all this material rests on my default layer, so Ctrl+A selects it all. And I just want to take, well, you know what, let's do this, let's take this model and these rods. And we can group them together. Left click, then right click the Top layer, and Change Object Layer. And…

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