Can someone help me with gcode or cad/cam(3dfigures inside)

[Ken_Shea]

A solid model can be one complete part that is a solid, or it can be made up of many solid components such as the individual pillars in your heat sink, sometimes it is necessary to pull all these individual components into one complete solid, in my software you would use the "Union" function.


Solids components are created from several methods I am familiar with:
1) surfacing all the sides of a wire frame and then using a "Merge" or "Union" function that pulls all those surfaces into a single solid component.
2) Built into the CAD software basic 3D solid shapes like cubes, cones, cylinders, etc where you define the location and dimensions.
3) Creating a surface on say a 2D square frame and extruding it down or up into a cube, you can do this with essentially any drawn 2D shape In my software this requires that the shape be level in Z I.E. not tilted, after it is extruded you can rotate/ move/tilt to any desired position.

[HawainPand]

okey, i grouped them together, except for the columns as i couldn't...wouldn't let me..but when i go render it, now all i see are the columns...

[Ken_Shea]

I would suspect that if is not solid rendering any thing but the columns then only the columns are solids. Possible there is a rendering setting that will show the wire frame stuff and solids combined. "Grouping" in the softwre I use does not make a solid.

If you are like most guys, you just want to dive in and get your hands dirty, I did too. I have heard that BobCad has very good tutorials, I would suggest you take a look at page one and work from there.
All CAD programs have a substantial learning curve, especially for those of us with out any previous knowledge or experience. It is apperant that you are working hard on this but you may need to work "Smarter" along with hard. Go through the tutorials and that should really make your CAD life easier.

[HawainPand]

do you know where i can find these tutorials?, i can't seem to find it on their site
thx alot btw, lol, i prob should of read them first, but i have to be quick, i have to start milling as soon as i can