- [Instructor] Now that we've gone through the steps
to define our machine parameters,
make sure that our tools are available in the tool crib,
and match the post processor to the machine
that we're going to be using for CNC machining,
let's go ahead and create or open up a part
that we want to machine.
All right, we have a simple geometry here
with a pocket and four holes at the corners.
The next thing we want to do is define the stock.
We do that by going back
to the SOLIDWORKS CAM NC manager tab in the feature tree.
Where we'll find the stock manager item,
and we can go ahead and double click that.
This allows us to define the stock that our part
is going to be cut from.
We'll go down here and use the bounding box offset method
to add material to both sides, the top, the front and back.
We're going to skip adding material to the bottom for now.
We only want to machine everything from the top surfaces.
Once we do that, we can also select the material
that we're going to machine from.
There's a wide range of materials available,
from metals, plastics.
We're going to select aluminum 6061 T6.
Click okay.
And now we have our bounding box defined
for the part that we're going to machine.