Zones can be either pockets or the outer part.
on the workbench you are working in.
Areas that will be machined with a path of ZLevel type and horizontal areas cannot be ordered.
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Open ZoneOrder.CATProcess from the samples directory.
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Click the Roughing icon
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Click the red sensitive area and select the whole part to be machined.
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Click Zone order
and select the zones to machine by clicking on the point in each as shown below:
When you select a face, an annotation appears. If this annotation is not in the pocket to be machined, you must create a point in this pocket and select it as explained above. -
Click Replay. The zones will be machined in the order they were selected.
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Use the Video from last saved function (
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to check that the zones were machined in the right order. -
Now create another Roughing cycle with the same ordered zones and, in Zone order contextual menu,
deactivate the Machine only ordered areas option.
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Click Replay.
- Note that the whole part is machined (including the outside of
the part)
and not only the zones you ordered.
- If a tool path cannot be computed because of invalid faces,
an explicit error message like this one will appear:
- Note that the whole part is machined (including the outside of
the part)
