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This task will show you how to set the order in which the zones on a
part are machined.
Zones can be either pockets or the outer part. |
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This is only an example. The menus available and the setup
of the dialog boxes may change depending
on the workbench you are working in. |
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You can only order sweep areas.
Areas that will be
machined with a path of ZLevel type and horizontal areas cannot be ordered. |
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You must have a part that has a point or a plane defined in
the each of the zones you want to select. |

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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.
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Click Replay. The zones will be
machined in the order they were selected.

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Use the Video from last saved function ( )
to check that the zones were machined in the right order.
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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:

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