solids toolpaths

[piratehcky]

im having a problem making a toolpath for a 3D design... the design is finished and i should be able to make the piece... but all i know is what i learned from the tutorial book that came w/ the program... it has about 8 different lessons... and only one goes over the 3D toolpaths... i have a part of the design that is an arc... and an angled part.... and but i am having a lot of trouble milling that... also the piece is a cross... and i want to get rid of all of the area around the cross so that the cross is protruding out of the metal... plz help me out...

[cadcam]

Share the file and what version you are using and do you have the solids option?

[piratehcky]

version 8.1.1 and yea i have the solids operation... but i cant attach the file... if thats waht u mean by sharing it...

[cadcam]

Yes sir that is what I mean or give me a screen shot of the part so I can get a better Idea of what you are trying to do.

[piratehcky]

ok... i think i attached them

these are cool

[cadcam]

Well lets start here, the only part I see the is 3d by meaning 3d cuts is the chamfers unless you have a tool with that angle.

Another thought is that I have a really good feeling that there are multy solids and it is not a single solid like it should be, am I correct

One of the screen shots shows a diffrent color being color 15 instead of color 10 , if this were one solid it would be all color 15.

for the main cuts I see Pocket faceing , Standart contouring and Surface flowline or surface parrail for the chamfer edges.

So this makes harder even to do the simple cuts.

[piratehcky]

should i make the whole think one solid... and if i should how do i do that...

[piratehcky]

i added the wireframe... maybe it'll help

[ObrienDave]

Add your MC8 file to a ZIP archive.
Then attach the ZIP file to your message.
We would be better able to help you then.