// Learn by doing
Learn CNC CAM by doing.
Nine short lessons inside MillPath. Each opens a ready project and shows you, step by step, where to click, and goes on when you have done it.
Your first part
Stock thickness, a profile with tabs, a hole, the cut order, the simulation and your first G-code file.
Start the lessonPockets and holes
Let MillPath find the holes; drill, bore, and a pocket with an island; depth and stepover; peck drilling.
Start the lessonTools and feeds
The tool editor, feed from the chip load (feed = spindle × flutes × chip load), depth per pass, the tool library.
Start the lessonA carved sign
V-carve the word OPEN with a depth limit and a flat clearing tool, cut the board out, and see how inlays work.
Start the lessonNesting on a sheet
Six copies of a part on a full sheet, the Part and Sheet views, the cut order, one file for the whole sheet.
Start the lessonSend it to your machine
Choose your controller, run the controller check in the air, learn a post from a file, export safely.
Start the lessonA plate from a 3D model
Turn a STEP model the right way up, pick its pocket and counterbores on the model (their depth comes with them), machine and compare.
Start the lessonRough and finish a 3D part
A part with curved faces: 3D rough, steep & shallow finishing with a ball nose, pencil in the corners, compare to the model.
Start the lessonA curved surface
Turn a block so its curved face is up, rough it and finish it with parallel passes; how the stepover sets the ridges.
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