Quick soft jaws for 2nd operation / finishing off the bottom side

I need to flip the part over now and face off the extra stock. It's a complication that makes the creation of next set of toolpaths a bit tricky. It's arguable that I could hold the existing part between the "ends" but that looks very risky. If the part moved during facing, I'd ruin it and possibly the tool too. Instead I'll machine up some soft jaws. They won't be bolted to the vise which makes them quicker and easier to model up and machine.

Created some simple rectangular extrusions for the vise jaws that I have already made (and used for the Y axis housing). Then took the sketch for the main body extrusion and used it to cut extrude the jaws. Finally, created an extra sketch to remove any fine radius corners and sharp edges. I could have done this in the original sketch but overlooked it. This method worked. The jaws will be spaced apart during machining by some 19mm (3/4 inch) box section I have on the shelf.

Now I have the jaws modelled up, time to CAM the roughing and finishing operations. 2D Adaptive to rough out the cavities, then 2D Contour to clean them up.

Set up the G54 origin at front top left corner of the jaws with reference tool - no need for any fancy probing, as the exact position isn't critical in any of the 3 axes:

 Load up Tool 17 (10mm long series loominum cutter):

These cutters just love chomping (almost silently) through loominum:

Now load up the steel lump and prepare to face off 13mm from the top:

Here we go:

Almost there:

Sorted:

Now for chamfering the top edges and profiling the cylindrical face (at RHS of bracket in the above shot).

That's the bottom side finished.