Specifications

Quickstart to Roland MDX-40 and Modela Player 4

Appendix

Basic Concepts

Appendix A (detailed explanations)

What’s a Modeling Form?

The space provided around a model for the approach of the tool is called the modeling form.

In order to cut an entire model, it is necessary to provide, outside the boundary box, a space that is wider than the blade

diameter. Also, slopes are made around the margin to eliminate perpendicular walls whose height the tool cannot reach.

When you are performing single- or multiple-surface cutting, you decide on the modeling form for each cutting surface.

The depth of the modeling form is the maximum cutting depth of the cutting surface. The depth of cutting specied in

the processes is limited to the depth of the modeling form.

When you are performing cylindrical or indexed cutting, you set the depth of the modeling form at the depth from the

circle circumscribed around the model. The depth of the modeling form is the limit for the tool’s approach. No tool path

is created in the area nearer to the center of the axis of rotation than the depth of the modeling form.

The slope is created rising from the depth of the modeling form to the top edge of the model.