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stevenbowtie
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Unnecessary linking moves in Spiral toolpath

When trying to cut a spiral toolpath, the cutting tool picks up and makes another pass from a different direction several times at the beginning of the cut. It is somewhat odd geometry, it is a lens coped to the face of a pipe with a cylindrical boss extruded through the center of the cope. Any suggestions to remove the extra linking moves? Thanks!

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seth.madore
in reply to: stevenbowtie

Like many things in life, there's more than one way to reach this goal. One quick thing I tried, (and which worked straight away) is turning on "Touch/Avoid" and selecting the inner diameter:

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Seth Madore
Customer Advocacy Manager - Manufacturing
stevenbowtie
in reply to: seth.madore

Thanks Seth! I had tried that, though it looked like it skipped the inner-most path. After trying your solution and looking more closely at the simulation, it does generate correctly.