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Lets see if this can be simplifyed for ya. (overlook my spelling)

Mastercam is a cad/cam program. Its used for drawing the part you want. In this case, the block. Now that you have it drawn, and all the measurments work, You have to take the drawing and figure out how you are going to machine it. Tool path is exactly what it says, the path the cutting tool is going to take to remove unwanted material. Once all the tool path is caluclated and you are happ how its going to come out. It has to be converted to code that the actual machine can read. Not all code is the same mind you. The cad/cam program uses something called a post processor. This writes the code (G-Code) in the format that the machine can read. Once the G code is wirten and sent tot he CNC machines memory. You have to setup the cutting tools. You have to match your ZERO points that you setup in the drawing. So the machine has a reference point. It starts counting from this zero point.


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