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Aluminum
- Joined
- Oct 12, 2013
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
I work for a carbon fiber bicycle company. Our VMC recently came back online after being down for some time, and I'd like to start machining molds on it. I've gone though several different CAM applications, and it's looking more and more like I'll be using Mastercam X5, which we already have. I learned Mastercam X7 in school years ago, but I'm struggling with something I don't think we worked with.
Mold halves for any particular component on the frame are created with the origin maintained from the original bicycle skeleton sketch, so from each tool's perspective their origin would seem somewhat random. I need to make it so that if I click the top view, I am looking into the mold cavity with Y along the left side of the mold and X along the bottom. Currently the top view looks at a corner of the mold with the front as the left side and a different corner as the bottom.
If I click WCS, then View Manager, then Solid Face..., it only allows me to select the Z. I need to define X and Y too, and neither are currently parallel or perpendicular to X and Y. I'm not sure where to go from here.
Here's the top view currently:
And the right view:
The top view is obviously wrong, and the right view shows the bottom.
Can you walk me through changing these views?
Mold halves for any particular component on the frame are created with the origin maintained from the original bicycle skeleton sketch, so from each tool's perspective their origin would seem somewhat random. I need to make it so that if I click the top view, I am looking into the mold cavity with Y along the left side of the mold and X along the bottom. Currently the top view looks at a corner of the mold with the front as the left side and a different corner as the bottom.
If I click WCS, then View Manager, then Solid Face..., it only allows me to select the Z. I need to define X and Y too, and neither are currently parallel or perpendicular to X and Y. I'm not sure where to go from here.
Here's the top view currently:
And the right view:
The top view is obviously wrong, and the right view shows the bottom.
Can you walk me through changing these views?