A novice programmer might not be able to distinguish the areas that require precision and delicacy from those that can be liberally hacked away, thus creating a toolpath strategy that takes much longer. The description may be simple, but the toolpath programming is not. So it creates toolpaths to cut away the stock until it ends up with your model ,” says Whatmough, Autodesk CAM product manager for the Autodesk Fusion product line. “The software knows the stock knows the tool. In this pithy answer Whatmough found a good analogy for the way 3D CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) software works. I just cut away everything that’s not the bear.” Seeing him in action, Whatmough once asked: “How do you know where to cut?” The chainsaw artist replied: “It’s easy. A family friend of Al Whatmough possesses what many might describe as a highly specialized skill: sculpting bears out of trees using a chainsaw.
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