If you're cutting the box from sheet material, then this really is a 2d machining job.

From memory, MeshCAM is designed to work with STL files for 3d jobs and its capability is pretty limited for 2d work, so in my opinion, is not ideal for this particular project.

I use CamBam as my main CAM system, which would be a good choice in this instance, as it has an edge treatment for corner rounding built into its 2d Profile Machining Operation and would make it much easier to do.



Martin (2).

Hi Alligator,

> Now, I just need to break apart each side so I can import the file into MeshCAM so I can tell my CNC machine to cut each part.

Is it currently all one single joined object?

If so then you can break that apart by selecting it and running Edit > Separate, that will take your one big single object and break it into individual surfaces. Then you might want to select the surfaces that belong to just one side and use Edit > Join to glue just those pieces together.

But basically Edit > Separate is a tool you can use for breaking apart a single object into separate individual surface pieces... I'm not entirely sure if that's exactly what you really want to do though, just looking at your object it's not clear to me whether you've got everything joined together into one solid right now or whether each side is a separate object already...

- Michael