Cutting forces with Carbide Create -- and how I got derailed a bit

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

For what it’s worth, I was working on adaptive clearing toolpaths in TPL a while back:

Toolpath strategies for the layman

Trying to work out improvements for this. AIUI, Carbide Create has the simplest possible toolpath strategy which has some potential problems: plunge along outside edge move at constant speed along perimeter move in by stepover repeat (I’m considering pockets only to keep this simple) There’s a bit of a discussion / listing of toolpath strategies at: https://www.cnccookbook.com/cam-features-toolpath-cnc-rest-machining/ for reference. I believe the above technique would fall under “Linear Ma…

might be some information there which you haven’t found yet, and the code might (or might not) be useful.