I'm thinking about making an Eureka cutter relieving tool.
Several parts are cut from steel plate in thicknesses from 3/8" to 1/2" and are curvy, hardly any straight sections. I have some plans from Grab-cad but they are metric and I prefer to use imperial so I'm drawing them in SW.
That's all fine and fun, along with generating the code in SC. The drawing I have show a small, .008", chamfer along the edges. Okay, no problem for the top side.
Now comes the problem. How do I flip the part over and program the chamfer cuts for the other side?
The parts have at least one hole and some other feature that I could probe to, but I'm stuck as how to use that info.
My probes seem accurate to 0.0003" and I think if I could match the SW model to the probed points I'd be within .001", but I can't quite figure the exact "How to".
Ozzie