[calzages]

Hello,
First of all sorry for my English.

I'm working with artcam 2008 and using it to make little reliefs in wood , I do a relief and apply a light and material to the relief and a color to the background and then I get a pretty clean relief, the reliefs has the material and light I choose and the color background is the surface outside the relief, this what I want it's perfect.
But when I want to machine the relief in the toolpaths area I must set a a material thickness and then the plain surface betwen the reliefs and the model limits gets the relief light and material, and then I have a square with the same light and material with the reief in the center.

I want to machine the model but maintain the clean relief, can I do it ?
Can anyone help me.

Thanks

Here are two images about it

In the first image I have the clean relief I want to use, in the second image the relief is extended when I use a thickness material to machine the relief, this change can't be undone, if I delete the material and toolpats the extended relief remais. I need to use the clean shape and I need machine the relief, can I do this?, Any Idea ?

Thanks again

[George Brown]

The only way I've been able to get it is to set the z-zero of the material to the bottom. Then the model gives you what you're looking for. However, that is not a good way to do it, and I don't know of any other.

[knowell2]

Click on toolpath tab > machine relief > go to top of page: Area to Machine, click on Automatic boundary. This will allow you to machine only the relief model. This option might not be available in your version of Artcam though. HTH

[calzages]

I'm using the George Brown way, it works fine to me, it's all I want.

I'm amazed about your replies, I post the message on 03-22-2010 and today 04-26-2010 one month later I receive two replies. What's happened.?

Thanks for you reply.