{"id":469,"date":"2011-06-27T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2011-06-27T11:54:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T15:54:25","slug":"holding-tabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Holding Tabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If possible I like to have some tabs, holding the piece that I am cutting out to the block that I am cutting from.\u00a0 For a while I was searching for a CAM program that would add these tabs for me, like Visual Mill.\u00a0 Now I realize, after watching some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhinojungle.com\/video\/madcam-tabs-for-two-sided\">MadCam training videos<\/a> that I can do this myself in my drawing software.\u00a0 What follows is an outline of the steps for reference.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/File?id=dfpk7cqb_53c75889dx_b\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: large;\">For Cutting Out Two Sided Models<\/span><br \/>\nCommand  Names are underlined<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bounding Box<\/span> around  Model<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rectangle<\/span> around top of box looking down top view<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Move  Faces<\/span> out to leave room to machine around model (Needs to be large  enough to clamp down the work lets say .25 min better .5 inches.\u00a0 Also leave room for the bit to do a profile all the way around.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Offset<\/span> the rectangle you drew so you have room to cut around actual model,  need a gap bigger then cutting bit<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Extrude Curve<\/span> through  the work piece<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Boolean difference<\/span> to leave gap<\/li>\n<li>Make  your tabs on the side somewhere .2 long by .1 high works well<\/li>\n<li>Snap  to the tab to curve in the gap made above with the boolean difference<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Transform  array<\/span> around the curve number of tabs you want.<\/li>\n<li>Make a  surface to separate the top and bottom of the model<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last step is only needed if you are going to do two sided milling like the video.\u00a0 This works well enough for 2D machining however a simple 2D profile down will take no notice of the tabs and just cut them right off.\u00a0 3D operations from above, at least with MadCam will see the tabs and cut around them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If possible I like to have some tabs, holding the piece that I am cutting out to the block that I am cutting from.\u00a0 For a while I was searching for a CAM program that would add these tabs for me, like Visual Mill.\u00a0 Now I realize, after watching some MadCam training videos that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnc-howto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulysolar.mudventions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}