Set Zero Plane To Bottom

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gkas
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Set Zero Plane To Bottom

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Today I cut a threshold plate for my son. He drew it in other software and I imported it as an stl. All was well and good. My confusion arose when trying to get the base of the stl model to to sit flat on the bottom of the material. I finally eyeballed it and got it to within 0.005 of actual. The height was supposed to be 0.625 and I got 0.620.

The material is 0.75", and the model is 0.625". Do I go into material setup and set the GAP ABOVE MODEL to 0.125"?

The test cut was in pine, but it cut out beautifully for him to do a a test fit.

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