Tech Tuesday: Create Custom Tooling With BobCAD’s CNC Software

Posted June 5, 2018 5:07 pm   Published by    BobCAD-CAM ">

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With BobCAD-CAM’s latest CNC software, users can take advantage of our Solid Imprint feature to create tooling for various projects. Creating an imprint is a pretty simple thing to do in BobCAD software. For starters, you’ll need some wireframe boundaries and a solid model.
wireframe and solid model in CAD-CAM software
 
In our toolbar, we will go to the ‘Solids’ menu and select ‘Imprint’ from the dropdown list. We now want to click on and select the wireframe boundaries we created, followed by selecting our solid model.
select wireframe and model in CNC software

 

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Once we have selected our wireframe boundaries and our solid model, then we are going to change our ‘Distance’. Essentially, we are setting the height in which to intersect with our solid. Choose ‘OK’ to finish the operation and there you have it, your very own customized tooling.
set height (distance) with CNC software
 
The Solid Imprint feature is really like a boolean process; essentially a faster way to create tooling to hold your parts. Thank you so much for reading another Tech Tuesday.
final tooling created with CAD-CAM
 

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Create Custom Tooling With BobCAD’s CNC Software
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With BobCAD-CAM’s latest CNC software, users can take advantage of our Solid Imprint feature to create tooling for various projects. The Solid Imprint feature is really like a boolean process; essentially a faster way to create tooling to hold your parts.
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