it is infinatly more complicated that just drawing the thing up in Mastercam. It does not automatically do your toolpaths. the speeds & feeds got to be set by someone who knows something about it. These things change by the type of machine you have, what kind of tooling, ect. Then you gotta chose the order of your cuts...ie what to cut first, what kind of tool to use, ect.
Supposing you got all that done, then the next step is to "post" your program, that is change it into a language that your machine can understand. One thing to consider is that each brand of CNC controller does not speak the same language. Each brand, weather it be a Fanuc or Yasnac or Siemmons has their own little quirks that must be adjusted for in the post-processor. After all that, there is the problem of actually sending the program you got into the machine. Now...believe it or not, modern machines really suck ass memory wise. 64k ( thats right, kilobytes ) or memory is typical. So unless you have some software that can "drip feed" the program you gotta stay under that limit.
So now lets say you got the program in the machine. You still have to set up the machine...that is find zero on the material, put all your tools in & relate them to the same heigth ( called tool length offset )
but it sounds to me like you are having probles in the post processor department right now. Find out what exact controller you have...make & model & I will see if I can scare up the proper post for you.
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