This locks in the radius for the circles. On the icon for radius on the ribbon bar as shown below. Before moving on, click in the white space for radius and enter a value of 0.25. The Circle Center Point ribbon bar appears and you are prompted to Enter the centerģ. Select Create>Arc>Circle Center point… 2. The arc C5 will be created using Fillet.Ĭreate Circle #1 1. First you will create the circles, C1 through C4 and then create the lines 1 through 7.

In this task you will create the geometry that will be used to create the revolved surface. TASK 2: CREATE GEOMETRY - X0 Y0 LOWER LEFT CORNER Set the machine type to a Haas Vertical Spindle CNC machine. Customize the toolbars to machine a 3D part. This will help identify the location of the origin. Perhaps you could suggest that they look into upgrading to Fusion? The standard version should be able to do everything that their ancient Mastercam can do (probably more), and it's only $300/year.Mill-Lesson-9 TASK 1: SETTING THE ENVIRONMENT Before starting the geometry creation you should set up the grid, toolbars and machine type as outlined in the Setting the environment section at the beginning of this text: 1. Or you could try and find a vendor that's a little more up to date.

This is a really big maybe though, so they may just have to live with it. If you have a sample model you can post here we might be able to look at it and spot some things that may be causing export issues. Use simple extrudes (with sketched circles) for holes and don't do any direct modelling commands like scaling or moving faces that might distort circles into non-circles. Unfortunately I don't think there is much you can do except try and make sure that your models are as 'clean' as possible. If I remember right I ended up just drawing new circles over the holes and positioning them as close as I could. I do remember even in X2 there were models that sometimes came in with holes that you couldn't convert to circles. I learned CAM on X2 which was bad enough, but V9 might as well be punch tape at this point. OMG Mastercam 9! Just thinking about it gives me the shakes.

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