[CNCnoob10]

ok im a student and my school just got a brand new cnc mill with mastercam x4 and the old mastercam 9 but the lessons that came with it are only for 9 and i would like to learn the x4. i just got a very complex rhino file seen here http://www.cartertools.com/3Dpath.html and i would like to know how tho tool path it and all that.
Thanks in advance

[brandou10l]

post the file and i can write some tool paths

[CNCnoob10]

here is the file it is a rhino 3D file. if you could just post the mastercam fle so i can see how you did it that would be great.

[brandou10l]

is this for a vertical mill or a horizontal mill, the reason bieng the setup is slighly diffrent

[Derek Goodwin]

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[brandou10l]

here it is, you will need the mu2 update for mastercam to open this file
goto to the mcam website to find it

these toolpaths are definetly not optimal for this part by far but you should get the jist of how to surface machine, starting with larger tools and working ur way down

u dont have to use ball mills to do you first roughing i prefer to use a radiused end mill maybe a .015-.025 corner rad depending on the application could be as high as .06 cr again its all in how things work and what makes good quality parts

[CNCnoob10]

It is a vertical mill. And your file didn't attach

[brandou10l]

i cant get the file to upload ill try tomorrow at work

[CNCnoob10]

i cant get the file to upload ill try tomorrow at work

are you uploding it as a compressed zip file?

[brandou10l]

yeah i still cant get it to work

keeps getting err "file upload failed"

file is far less tha 8.5 gb limit, only about 4. mb

[brandou10l]

cncnoob u can pm me with ur email and i can send it

[brandou10l]

did u get the file

[CNCnoob10]

did u get the file

Got the file I will try it as soon as our computer gets back up the schools way of running it is compleatly wrong but it sometimes works