Please rethink what you've done to CAM patterns
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What was the reason pattern behavior was changed? It used to work great.
You used to be able to post a single instance toolpath or multiple toolpaths for testing/prototyping reasons. Now you have to post the ENTRIRE pattern. There is no way to post a single instance anymore? You used to be able to post the pattern itself if you wanted the entire pattern, or post individual operations inside the pattern if you just wanted those. Now we can't do that. How are we supposed to test toolpaths before doing an entire setup?
To make matters even worse, I just discovered you can't SIMULATE a single instance for checking. Now you have to simulate the ENTIRE pattern just to see if it it is set up right. What took seconds now takes minutes on HSM toolpaths, waiting for the entire array of parts to simulate before it moves on to the next operation. And this is done dozens of times during a typical setup.
So why was this changed? Why was a perfectly functional system changed to have less functionality? What do I do now? Make a duplicate setup for a "single" op and constantly update both the single and the pattern, never forgetting to do that or else I break stuff?
I don't think this change was thought through. Or I'm missing something.
If you MUST keep it this way, at least add a right-click context menu option to toolpaths in a pattern that says 'post toolpath >" "post pattern" and "post single". Ditto for simulate.
Fusion
