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How to create a custom holder in Mastercam?

How to create a custom holder in Mastercam?

By Jacques Barbe

Step-by-step guide

  1. In Mastercam in the top plane draw the shape of your holder like bellow (see this example Custom_holder.mcx-9 )
     
     
  2. Go in the Tool Manager or directly in a path tool tab 
  3. Right click on your tool and edit holder


  4. You can import or export the geometry in a level by clicking on the icons bellow:

 

Mastercam needs to recognized simple segments (build with simples lines). Complex geometries (splines, lots of brokens lines) might not work.

Compatibility

For Mastercam 2017-2018:

The custom tools is not working with Robotmaster because Mastercam changed some libraries in those releases.

For Mastercam X8-X9:

The custom tools in inches does not work because of some scaling issues/bugs. This should be fixed in release v6.6. However, the metric version works fine.


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