Trying to minimize rapid movements and lines of G-code

[rtexer]

I am trying to rough this part and my Machine is having troubles reading past block N99999. I am trying to minimize the rapid movements hoping that it will reduce my lines of G-code as well. Any tips or tricks to make it more of a continuous roughing instead of raising up all the time?

https://a360.co/3LzOAOM

[taylor.tobin]

Good morning,

A few thoughts:

1- In the linking tab of your adaptive path, try increasing your staydown level. This should cut down on rapid movements.
2- You have your Maximum Roughing Stepdown and Fine stepdown both set to the same relatively tiny value. Is this intentional? Depending on the material you are working with, increasing your maximum stepdown by a few orders of magnitude will significantly cut down on your total lines of code.
3- Also material and machine dependent but in some cases enabling milling 'both ways' will cut down on program  code length...

Best regards, T

[rtexer]

Thanks for the tips! I also adjusted the post processor to go from increments of 5 for the block sequence to increments of 1 so now I have 5x the amount of code I can run!

[seth.madore]

Also, if you turn on Smoothing, it will reduce your toolpath file size from 1mb down to 596kb. Playing even further with that and tightening the tolerance to .0005" and Smoothing Tolerance set to .001", it brings it down to 485kb. Food for thought. Plus, it should help your machine run a bit smoother