Path Optimization (and a few other) Frustrations

[mikep]

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Path optimization to reduce rapids?

I’ve been watching a fair number of nomad videos here and there, while I wait for my machine/licenses to come. Something that I noticed is that there are a lot of cases where the paths seems to be suboptimal - in particular for PCB milling where a part of the board gets done, then there is a rapid to the other end of the board, and a little more gets done, then back to something close to (but not the same as) the first area… Lots of rapids, when it seems that there could have been an optimizatio…