When using pocket clearing, I want to be able to choose between "inside-out" or "outside-in" cutting direction.
At the moment, if you have a floor which has no walls at all, it will machine from outside to inside. If you have at least 1 wall, it will machine from inside to outside. You cannot change this, no matter how hard you try, or which cycle you use. I would agree that in most cases, this makes sense and is desired. However, there are cases which this is not wanted, and at the moment you cannot change it. I contacted tech support, phone, emails, forum, etc. You can come close to what you need, but it won't be exactly what I describe... unless you draw additional geometry. I can make an alternate model and get what I want, but it is time consuming (we make lots of these parts, so I'd have to constantly make a few models for each part), when a simple option asking the cutting direction would solve the issue completely.
On the picture below, the pattern is exactly what I am after. If course it is not good as it machines the wall right off. But the pattern is correct. I did this by saying that the part is only the step face where i machine, so the wall is not considered, therefore it machines inwards. If I use the full part as the model to consider for toolpath, it starts from the middle of the floor and goes outwards, because there is a wall. The option to choose the direction would solve this.
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