Lots of small moves and returns on 3D tool paths and Flow

Lots of small moves and returns on 3D tool paths and Flow

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Lots of small moves and returns on 3D tool paths and Flow

Anonymous
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Hello All,

 

For the most part I can manage my way through 3d contouring/surfacing tool paths. But 90% of the time I cant get my paths to be fully continuous or.. seamless? They get broken up with little unnecessary moves and retracts, as you can see by the attached file. 

 

I've tried 3d Contour, 3d Ramp.. increasing tolerance, decreasing. Re-drawing my surfaces.

 

TIA to anyone who can help me get on the right path, for this and future surfacing.

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It was your transition type. You had smooth selected so it would do those MANY nice sweeps to keep everything...well smooth. I picked straight line and it got rid of all that. Hope this helps.

 

Cheers

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Thanks for your reply.

While yes changing that did fix the transition part, why is it still retracting to go take a small cut, then retracting again to go take another small cut?

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