Terrain Relief Model - Drawing Paths

I thought that we had discussed this previously.

Anyway, wouldn’t it work in Carbide Create Pro to:

  • import the 3D model:

Draw the path as an outline which is ~10% wider than a small/narrow endmill:

Subtract that from the model as a shallow path:

Then, cut things as normal:

which all previews as:

Then, select the geometry:

and assign a 3D toolpath to it:

and one gets a toolpath which follows along the cut 3D model:

It would be nice if this could be done w/ a 3D Roughing toolpath which would follow the outline, but I couldn’t get that to instantiate.

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