Unnecessary linking moves in Spiral toolpath

[stevenbowtie]

When trying to cut a spiral toolpath, the cutting tool picks up and makes another pass from a different direction several times at the beginning of the cut. It is somewhat odd geometry, it is a lens coped to the face of a pipe with a cylindrical boss extruded through the center of the cope. Any suggestions to remove the extra linking moves? Thanks!

[seth.madore · Accepted solution]

Like many things in life, there's more than one way to reach this goal. One quick thing I tried, (and which worked straight away) is turning on "Touch/Avoid" and selecting the inner diameter:

 

[stevenbowtie]

Thanks Seth! I had tried that, though it looked like it skipped the inner-most path. After trying your solution and looking more closely at the simulation, it does generate correctly.