From the course: Creating a Guitar Body with RhinoCAM

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Toolpathing the front of the neck and headstock

Toolpathing the front of the neck and headstock - RhinoCAM Tutorial

From the course: Creating a Guitar Body with RhinoCAM

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Toolpathing the front of the neck and headstock

- The front side of our guitar neck requires a new machining operation called Engraving. But before we can get to that we need to flip the model over. Okay, so in order to flip this model I'll head back to the programming tab and temporarily hide my toolpads. I need to select the objects that are getting flipped, which includes this overall contour of the neck, this little line that identifies the channel for the tension rod and also for the next of the model itself. So, I'll temporarily group these items. Now, if I switch my view to front you'll see a little point right here that I've already placed inside of the guides layer. So, I want to rotate this object while making a copy and you can see copy up here equals yes. Click on that if it doesn't. I'll turn on my point Osnap. Select the point as the center for rotation and then make a new object. Now, by default, the object that we started with is the one that's still highlighted so I'm going to hide that object, select the materials…

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