Rapid No Go Area

[spinningwood]

Material is 4' x 8'. There are 88 areas that are being pocketed with a rapid between each area. I have clamps strategically placed away from toolpaths. Aspire wants to rapid across some of the clamps. I could avoid clamp crashing by changing safe Z from 0.2" to 1", but then that's a lot more Z movement on the job adding a lot of time. Is there anyway to define no go zones in aspire for rapid moves? I looked through the manual, FAQ and forum but didn't see anything addressing clamp avoidance other than adjusting safe Z. I'm hoping I overlooked something.

I suppose I could manually edit the GCode to use a higher safe z only in the problem areas, but I might be better off just running the job with a higher Z.

Ed

[Adrian]

Set Z1 to the height to clear the clamps and Z2 just above the material. Providing your post processer has the RAPID_PLUNGE_TO_STARTZ set then the moves between Z1 and Z2 will be made at rapid rates rather than plunge rates.

There is no way to easily "block" areas in XY.

[spinningwood]

Thanks Adrian - I'm on a new machine with a new post processor that was missing the RAPID_PLUNGE_TO_STARTZ. I'm going to modify that right away. I'm glad you mentioned it.

I ended up editing my g-code for this job. It didn't take long to find the clamp transits using the mach3 preview. Maybe X/Y no go areas will be in a future update.

Ed