Tutorials - From a drawing to a cutting example

[blackburn mark]

There are some very good video tutorials for SolidCam that I found to be an excellent complement to the written materials (and can be found here if anyone is interested: http://www.solidcam.com/solidcam-professor.html). Each to their own, one supposes.

i did a bit of solidcam professer and the tutorials and the help files, it still boggled the s**t out of me for a good while
im not sure good cam software is intuative, soidworks is pretty easy to get into but solidcam is a bit of a **** .... you cant play it by ear at all but it starts getting petty slick once you press the right buttons and twiddle the right knobs :tup: it takes a bit of heart ache and pain first though

(i never could get it to make any sense of my 4th axis)

when i say "good" cam sofware i mean exotic... for doing acrobatic tool paths and all sorts of posh graphics for simulations.... probably a bit over kill for most and very very over priced for us mear mortals :)

[luke11cnc]

I still think it's a good idea

Luke: I'll show you how to do it in person when the time comes. For that particular part you'll probably have to export it from the CAD program as an STL and import into whatever CAM program you choose...

No disrespect. But well all don't have a very good friend like Jonathan to fall back on in the early teething stages.

if I could afford it I would go to night school

I know my son Luke would and learn from a video as that's all he does (watch youtube LOL)

however I know he is going to learn a lot from Jonathan as he looks up to him as a expert and a teacher.

James