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Tool path for multiple bodies is confusing

hcwesterveld
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Tool path for multiple bodies is confusing

hcwesterveld
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I am creating a simple box and want to cut the 4 sides (bodies) out of in piece of wood with multiple depths.
Depending on I-don't-know the tool path deals with each body individual or tries to do them all 4 at the same time, which creates a lot of (unnecessary) movement of the spindle.
So, rather than cutting Side 1 and then Side2 and then side 4, it does one pass on Side1, goes to Side2, back to Side1, next to Side3
How can I enforce that each body is cut out before it moves to the next body?

 

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Joshua.Aigen
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@hcwesterveld I'm not exactly sure but are you trying to mill out the sides of a box similar to the image attached?Capture4.JPG

Here what I have done is created a 2D contour around each part by selecting the outside edge of each part separately. Then I am able to control which part is milled first, second, or last by dragging the order of each toolpath labeled in the feature tree.


Joshua Aigen
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Joshua.Aigen
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Incase it is here is the file that I created for reference.


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hcwesterveld
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Yip, Brilliant. Obviously I was making it too complex by trying all the different parameters. I can now select the 4 toolpaths an post process them into one g code (I am learning every day!).
Thank you @Joshua.Aigen 

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