Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum, I'm Andrew.

I am going to be building a 5 axis cnc mill this summer and I thought that understanding how the software works is the first part of the process - you know, before I spend thousands on the actual machine.

Now, I have CAD experience but no CAM experience, I am going to buy books and look up tutorials to learn my cam program.

I am running 'SolidWorks 2009' and 'Mastercam X4 for SolidWorks'.

I repeat, i have no idea of Mastercam...


Now i come to my question, I need to tell the program what the machine is capable of and what its dimensions are, if I understand correctly this is done in the machine definition manager thing.

Are there any tutorials or some help that someone might direct me to, I need to create the machine definition and understand the whole program before I get to building my mill.


Many thanks everyone,
Andrew