Weird 3D Toolpath (Parallel)

[traditional.builds]

So toolpaths have been a bit of a weakness of mine. It seems that I can never get them right and when I do, they operate in very strange ways.

For this model, I am following a YouTube tutorial just for some extra practice, and when I add the Parallel milling operation to my piece, it starts a normal parallel/back and forth operation, but then it starts to jump around. It stops its consistent path and jumps to a random part in the piece a few times, and then returns to it's previous path. The path eventually meets up with the place it jumped to, so I don't see why it would want to make that jump, considering it's a parallel operation.

If anyone has any ideas on where I am messing up I would be super grateful!

Thank you,

Mike

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

There is an option for simple ordering but note the machining time is longer.

[johnswetz1982]

For something organic like this you may want to look at [Morphed Spiral] as well.

[traditional.builds]

Thanks for taking a look at it. I still need to learn all of this better but your reply helps.

[traditional.builds]

Hmm I will have to check it out and see how that works. Thanks for the reply! I am still fairly new to all of this so every little bit helps!