Please look at the tool
path I somehow created for my waste board.
Is there a way to control the toolpath so it’s more efficient?
Or does it just have a mind of its own and there’s nothing I can do?
See image attached.
This is the “Traveling Salesman” problem in logic/computer science which is a difficult one to solve.
In theory you could solve it by manually assigning a toolpath to each bit of geometry, but in practice doing so can run up against limits on how many toolpaths CC will generate G-Code for.
If you feel the pathing is especially egregious, please send the file in to us at support@carbide3d.com and we’ll try to have a developer look into it.
There are G-Code utilities which will re-order G-Code for efficiency, but they are not supported.
After reading your response about the multiple toolpaths. I loaded myers small wasteboard file. I then deleted all of the toolpaths. I then created a new toolpath using an 1/8 inch straight bit. This toolpath consisted of the top 8 thru holes. Each being a pocket. When I looked at the simulation. The toolpath started with the 6th hole from the left and proceeded to the left then to the right.
I would have expected it to start with the first hole on the left and proceed to the last hole on the right.
PS using nc viewer. I also noticed that it first cut the 1/4 hole then cut the outer circle. But I only selected the 1/4 holes.
Thank you for responding!
Yes, I thought it would go left to right also, bc that is how I selected them. But not.
Thanks!
Hi Garry as discussed above, and accepting you are using CC at the moment, but once you out grow it (nothing wrong if you do not it is a good piece of software). Fusion360 have a feature on toolpaths called “preserve order” this then cuts in the order you selected. I.e. if there was three holes and you go left to right h1 h2 h3 and selected in that order the you be cut like that, if you selected h1 then h3 then h2 it would do in that order.hope that helps
Jon
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Vectric software does optimise toolpaths the way Fusion360 does by creating whatever order you select such as one-by-one or shortest path. There are four or five options to toolpath order. FYI. 
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See every day is a schoolday I did not know that Tex!!
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