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Further, in this starting video we're going to go through the process of importing, placing, setting up and fixturing our working piece and final part model and we're going to do so using this Micron VCE 600 Pro milling machine. It's just a 3-axis machine to try and keep things simple for us. So to start with we're going to go into the model tab and we're going to make sure that we've got the part folder highlighted because that's where we want to import our part to and I'm going to click on the import button and on my desktop here there is part. igs which is the file that we're importing and as we can see we've now imported the part.

There's a few interesting features on there, nothing too horrifically challenging, just enough to give us a bit to work with and a bit to understand and it gives us enough flexibility to use a range of different operations just to get the best feel for the workflow in ENCY. So now that we've imported this we're going to go back to the machining tab because we now need to take a look at setting up some fixturing for it and then setting up the workpiece definition which is the material stocks functionally and making sure we've got our G54 datum set in the correct position. So we'll start with the fixturing so to do so we're going to go to the inspector tabs here we're going to click on fixtures now we've got a few options here we can like add chuck vice clamp all that sort of stuff but these require that we set everything manually what we can also do is we can shortcut that which is what we're going to do for this instance we're going to click on the load button with the drop down here and we're going to grab the examples vice 66 by 82 MCP file this is a 66 by 82 machine vice it's quite a nice size for what we need and if we click on it now we can see how it automatically defaults to coming in at the center of the worktable it's aligned quite neatly with the T slots as well so we don't need to do anything to shift it so yeah I'm quite happy with that there right now that fits for our needs. So the next thing that we're going to do now is we are going to take a look at the workpiece surrounding our part so we are now going to move over to the workpiece inspector and I'm going to click on primitive here so as I say we've still got all these options here but for now we're just going to draw a cuboid around our part there's already one by default but we want to make it a couple of millimeters thicker because we're going to be facing it off so I'm going to click on primitive now and we've got box as standard definition ordinarily same stock is turned on this means that any value that you put in is going to be repeated in every single direction we're going to turn that off and we're going to add 2 in negative Z and 2 in positive Z and then click add so we're now close that and we can see by the shadow here there is a slight increase in the thickness of this but we are now going to be bringing this up to where we need it to be and we're going to be setting the workpiece coordinates and the system and everything like that as well so to do so we're going to click on setup and we're going to click on workpiece setup and then we're going to click on the three dots here okay now doing so allows us to define all of these things either with vector or coordinate data or we can also grab the various arrows that are highlighted here as well which is what I'm going to do for this so I'm going to grab this blue arrow here and we're going to drag it vertically in Z now ideally what I'd like to do is I'd like for the vice jaws to be gripping this highlighted face around the edge of the workpiece so we're going to need to we don't know the exact numerical value of that right now so I'm going to use the navigation cube down here and I'm going to click on front so I can see stuff a bit more clearly then I'm going to zoom in and I am going to drag this vertically until that's clearly the edge of this face is clearly above the edge of the vice now 116.