Alligator.

Would you intend to cut those parts from sheet material such as plywood or MDF etc? If that is the case, then you would need to be working from curves out of MoI, rather than solids. So assuming that to be true, I've extracted some curves from your model and exported them to CamBam as a dxf file and my video shows a little of what can be done in this way.


Notice how you create features such as pockets at different Z levels, by making alterations to the Stock Surface and Target Depth settings, without the need for anything other than a 2D drawing in Plan View. CamBam can also use stl output from MoI to machine direct from the solid, but it wouldn't really be an appropriate machining strategy for the kind of model you have posted here.

I hope you can see that it's not too difficult to get going in CamBam now and let me know if you need more help or information.

http://screencast.com/t/kyunFyUODc

 

Martin (2).