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

You would need to manually draw up the toolpath as open geometry — see:

Preparing rough cut lumber for machining

An improvement on the straight lines would be to use arcs at the ends for smoother movement. If one wants to surface off for example an 8x12 area: [image] then the easiest way to do this is to increase the Stock Width by 2 inches and the Height by 1 inch: [image] [image] Center the rectangle showing the area one wishes to cut as a reference: [image] Align Vectors [image] [image] and then draw in the ends: [image] (and increase the Grid size to match the desired stepover) [im…