I was curious if there are any examples of how you modify your program to not cut your fixture clamps etc...
Up until now, almost all of my machining has been on a vise with me operating the g codes with plenty of clearance to ignore the attachment method.
So how does this work? Do you have to model your clamps in cad and generate that way or?
I realize that half the battle is to hold the material in a way that the hold downs will never be in the way.
Unfortunately, I really haven't seen any training material on this.
I.e.
Step1, Cut softjaws for stock material.
Step2, Cut reverse mold into soft jaws.
Step3, load and offset material.
Step4, cut 3d profile x-amount deep.
Step5, flip part and cut profile from reverse axis x-amount deep.
Am I confused on how this works? Or is there a level of assumption that cam programs don't cover this?
This isn't specific to any particular software. I'd just yo see more examples of how this is handled.
Thanks for the help,
-Deviant