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that's a programmer level work around for a limitation in the softwares ability to interpret the correct machining strategy. i've also wondered why there are not options for "pass direction" or something along those lines.... mastercam has some tools to control the pathing horizontal to x or switched to horizontal to y (as an example).
i really despise that if i want to force a tool path to do something specific, that i have to add a sketch to a part model to force the CAM algorithm to perform as i would program it if i were doing it manually. this thought process of having to do additional steps to process something correctly goes against my intuition about how CAM is supposed to be simplifying programming.
i'm not complaining. i'm trying to explain what i'd like to see in hopes that future versions could afford more programming flexibility. there have been many times using hsmworks/xpress in both solidworks and fusion 360 where i've found myself using additional sketches, and generating tool paths over and over trying to get it to do exactly the motion that i need it to do.
responding to your sketch to define the hole boundaries... is that not still going to involve selecting only the outer edge of each hole in order to do a projection? i suppose i could select the face of the part and project, but then i'd need to remove all the hole edges i do not want. not quite as easy as selecting the feature and pattern in the timeline.
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