Vectric Customer

Hi,
I have a roughly oval shape (think 'organic' oval) that is highly textured from an imported bitmap. It machines fine but both offset and raster take a very long time to machine it.

The project is a '29' style cribbage board with the playing surface flat and full height of the workpiece so that it's flat. That means the bulk of it requires no machining at all. The thing is that offset and raster both span the entire work piece so the machine spends a great deal of time going back and forth over portions that require no machining at all.

Is there a way to break the machining paths up so that I could identify the half dozen areas that 'do' need to be machined and create toolpaths for those and leave the areas that don't need any work alone? I haven't been able to find a way to do this in 3d.

Thanks!

Paul

This is from vectric.com it's on your aspire disc that you bought.

F12 - Rest Machining

A demonstration of the technique for isolating and efficiently machining only the areas of a model that have not been reached by previous toolpaths.

This video is only available on the Aspire Installation disk

Tony

If you draw vectors around the areas you want to machine and then have those vectors selected when you create the 3D toolpaths only the areas within those vectors will be machined.

Ahh - perfect - the video is just what I needed!

Thanks