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Dynamic milling: Open pockets
From the course: Learning Mastercam for SOLIDWORKS
Dynamic milling: Open pockets
- In this video we're going to be taking a look at dynamic milling for open pockets. Now when you are milling open pockets, they're a little bit different from regular pockets. So let me show you how that works. The first thing I want to is head up here to 2-D high speed tool paths, come down here to dynamic mill. Now this is exactly the same as the regular pocket, but there's a few more options. So, the first thing I want to do is I want to chose the face I'd like to machine. And there it is, right there. Click over here to the chain. This looks good. Click on okay. Come up here to dynamic mill, make sure you're choosing that one there, and I've got this machine region one here turned on. Which I just selected. Then I come down to the tool, I'm going to chose tool four. A stock, just leave it as is. Cut parameters, now let's just ahead and leave that as is for right now. Notice the stock to leave on the walls, as well as the floor, are fifty thousands. Let's go ahead and change that…
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