Originally Posted by
webgeek
Additionally, the little "L" shaped thing at the top is used as a home point for all operations. Visual Mill is good at moving everything around to make a box of stock around parts and giving you a home point. I had no end of trouble getting it to use the home point where I wanted it though so I made that little indicator inside of CAD and it becomes a part of the assembly I use in Visual Mill. Then I just tell VM to use the upper left of the geometry as the home point and I'm golden. Since the fixture plate is used (but not exported) as part of the CAD assembly, everything lines up perfectly every single time. Works great. I should probably create a little tutorial on this as it was a lot of painful trial and error to figure it out and I didn't see anyone else explaining it already. Would this be useful to the community?
Thanks!
-Mike