- [Instructor] First, let's add a new mill part setup.
You'll notice a little arrow and circle here.
That's the direction that this part's going to machine from.
If we want to machine from the bottom of the part instead,
we need a new mill part setup that we can call bottom.
And any of the features that will be machined
from that part setup can be added
to that particular part in the feature tree.
So I'm going to go ahead and right click on Mill Part Setup.
Open up the menu item, click on Mill Part Setup.
And then I need to choose a plane
that will be my new machined face.
So I'm going to choose the bottom plane here.
And we'll make sure that we have a face clicked,
finish strategy, and I'll click OK.
And now we have selected the bottom of this part
as our new machine face.
We've added a face feature.
And we don't have to add that face feature
but I did in this case.
And I'm going to go ahead and rename this
to Mill Part Setup Bottom.
And just to make things make sense,
we'll call Mill Part Setup 1, Mill Part Setup Top.
Now anything we add to Mill Part Setup Top
can be machined from the top face.
We've created a number of features here.
Each of these features can be machined when we get
to our next steps
where we start to define toolpaths.
Perhaps I don't want to machine something
or don't want to create a toolpath for it.
One of the things I can do is either suppress
or delete the features for the feature tree.
The difference is if I suppress the feature,
it will still be present
but it'll be ignored when I go to the next step
of generating my toolpaths.
Otherwise, if I know I don't want a feature,
I can always just delete it.
So let's go and look at suppressing the obround pocket here.
And in the cam feature tree,
suppression works exactly as you'd expect it
from suppressing features in the regular feature tree.
Click Suppress.
It's grayed out
and then it'll be ignored when we generate our toolpaths.
An alternative to suppressing feature
is to delete it outright.
When I delete the feature,
it's going to move into the recycle bin.
Click Yes.
Now, I still have this feature here
in case I want to undelete it later
but now it's in the recycle bin.
It'll be ignored in all of the future steps
that I'm taking for generating my toolpaths
and machining my part.