Milling pocket aligned with wood grain

[lukaspanic]

I am trying to create an operation that is a pocket with the majority cut in x direction only, to align with wood grain. If I use 2D pocket it makes it a bunch of rectangles inside of each other which is too much cutting across the grain. Adaptive clearing is awesome fast and efficient but it is a bunch of swirls across the grain. A facing operation is essentially what I need but within the boundaries of the pocket like in the highly artistic drawing below. I understand that I will have to go at least once around the inside perimeter of the pocket to clean it up and that's ok.

How would I set this up?

[daniel_lyall · Accepted solution]

You can use the parallel toolpath to cut like that as you can change its direction and have it inside the boundary basically like a raster toolpath.

[lukaspanic]

That is exactly what I was looking for, thank you! I think I tried it before but got only an error message and an empty path. I guess this time I set it up correctly and it works.
Thank you!