TopoMiller - 3D Topographical Carving

It’s not as bad as you may think.

The smaller bits’ get a bit overwhelming for the PC because the REST mesh is HUGE ! I have 32 GB of memory ( and I have been whittling down the bloatware on the PC) and it still heavily uses the swap files.

I also found the smaller bits leave gouges at times, so I just avoid them or set the cusp height fairly large so it doesn’t go there.

For this carve … approx 12" square.

I start with a Pocket path leaving 0.010 stock.

This is the 3/4 path, full coverage

This is the 1/2 path.

This is the 1/4 path. I had bumped up the cusp height to remove sporadic cuts.

The resulting tool paths are fairly small if your PC survives the calculations.

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