Hello, fellow machinists. We make some plates out of 10mm aluminum with a lot of holes and taps in them with +/- 0.1mm position tolerance. Since we use the "fast" cut technology table on our fiber laser sometimes their dimensions are out of tolerance and I decided to cut them 2mm bigger in every dimension on the laser and after that cut them to dimension, drill and tap them on one of our VMCs. Our programmer is on a long leave and I can't seem to figure out a way to make FeatureCAM understand that I don't want to cut it from a block of aluminum but rather a bigger version of the part itself. Does anyone have an idea how to do it easy or should I have someone make a solid model just for the stock? Thanks in advance for the replies.
Best regards
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