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paramax55
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@engineguy 

Thank you! I will take a look at the file when I get back, but that looks like the (almost) exact toolpath that I am looking for.

 

I say "almost" because my setup on my machine is just like your screenshot - if you rotate the stock 90 deg counterclockwise. And my stock is the same size as in the cad (I machined it to size on the manual first). My origin is in the bottom left corner (Z0 at top of stock), the x axis is positive to the right, the y axis is positive away from me, and the z axis is positive toward the sky.

 

I understand that you can't do my wotkflow for me - nor would I want you to. And I appreciate your time. What I needed was to learn about "touch face" and then learn how to contain a roughing operation when I don't have geometry to select. These are skills I will use in the next 100 parts that I design and the large cnc conversion that I have planned. I have probably watched 30 videos on cam so far and it seems that everyone is making the same five videos over and over. Nobody that I have found addresses these issues. If you can tell me where to get some more advanced training, I'm all eyes and ears.

 

I have come a long way in a short period of time - from not knowing these machines existed to building one, then adding my own electronics, hooking up a raspberry pi with a rasbian desktop, controlling it with a combination of octoprint and bCNC, learning a bunch of the cam workflow, and performing several successful machining operations already. I do have a full ability to learn if pointed in the right direction.