From the course: Learning RhinoCAM
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Tools
Once my regions are in good order, I'll need to go ahead and establish tools in my library, before we can move on to creating an actual two and a half axis tool path. To do so, I will click here to make a new tool. And now we're confronted with lots and lots of options. Now, the type of tool path we'll be creating first is known as a profiling path. And this is a path that will cut all the way through the surface, and out the bottom of our piece of stock. So because of that, the first thing I'll pick is a profile. And in this case, it will be a flat mill. Flat mills, I would argue are probably the most common mill profile you'll encounter. And so it's often easy to forget and just go ahead with the default ball, but this will cause you to get some funky results, unless that's what you actually want. So, we'll start here with the flat mill and that's the profile. Now, you can take a look here at all of these different ways of designating the measurements at different parts of the bit…
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