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terence_ibert
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Excessive traversing between pocket milled holes

I have 300 holes for a waste board with embedded T-Nuts.  For each hole there is actually the wider recessed bit for 3/4" in diameter followed by a smaller 5/8 diameter for the length of the t-nut followed by 1/4" diameter for the remaining amount of material thickness to the other end of a 3/4" MDF board.  When setting up a CAM tool path, Fusion mills the top holes separately from the deeper holes causing a lot of traversing of the machine between positions instead of simply milling all 3 before moving on to the next position.  I am not able to change this behavior.  Is there something I can do?  Currently the algorithm is extremely inefficient.

 

I've enclosed a screen shot of the tool paths simply selecting 3 hole sets.  This looks even messier with the full 300 on the board.