Actually, I was just playing with it and it lowered the line code by 5000 lines. When ever I generate a path it always wants to cut the whole area. I wanted to run a pocket finishing operation on a section and I drew a circle on the inside and out side border of just the area I want to cut and when it generated the cut it only did that area, which is perfect.
I then put a box around a section that I wanted to pencile trace and it stayed in the box, where before it tried to pencile trace the whole model which would have taken another 8000 lines to complete. So this method of selecting regions allows me to reduce the machine time way down.
Whats more, Im machining in wax that I cast in a round tupperware container. I drew a circle around the entire model the exact size of the wax casting and ran the horizontal roughing in the region and it now stops the end mill from getting any where near my clamps. Previously it was cutting in square roughing pattern because the box stock was square. So now I not only limited the cutting area to the actual wax area, I also cut out pointless and dangerous cuts near the clamps.  |