Newbie- nesting on mastercam

[joehernandez]

can you nest on mastercam ? and if yes how ?

[Toonz]

Mastercam does have nesting capabilities. We have it here. IMHO....it sucks!! I have never successfully created a nest. It would randomly decide which parts it wanted to load into the nest. I finally gave up. We can do it faster thru our cnc control editor.

[cadcam]

I see toonz does not like it or know how to use it. as there are many was to configure it.
you can do Geo or by tool path. review the help and if you have specific questions please ask.

[fizzissist]

Specific questions? Ok, I got one!
....Mastercam X3, full featured, with Art.

I'd like to "nest" an array of simple holes within a part. That is, I'm creating a shape for a part, a flat plate that may have curves or irregular features on the outside, and some large openings within.

How would I go about nesting an array of arcs, or points, within the part? Simply nesting within a rectangle prior to shaping the part won't work because the end result is aeshetic.

So far, I've been coming up pretty empty.

[cadcam]

....Mastercam X3, full featured, with Art.

What do you mean buy full featured?

as for nesting points this can not be done as there is not true shape to nest against. I suggest create point and you array then you can adjust on the fly by change distance and what point stay and go.

[fizzissist]

By "full featured" I meant that I have the complete package.

Array doesn't work for my application. Thanks for the feedback, it just confirms that the program won't do what I need. That's ok, wasn't expecting miracles, and now I'll just take a different approach.

[tobyaxis]

This might be a little outside the box but have you looked into Plunge Roughing to do what you want??? I don't know what Level of MC you would need but know they have this type of feature.

Just throwing it out there as a possible option.