Edit Toolpath - Edit Tool Axis

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Introduction

This topic explains the Parameters available when the Edit Tool Axis Command Mode, which gives you the option to modify the tool orientation vector for a the selected toolpath elements, is used. As explained in the Edit Toolpath Dialog topic, most of the Edit Toolpath dialog remains the same, no matter which Command Mode is being used. It is the Parameters of the Edit Tool Axis Command Mode this topic focuses on, although, the Command Mode group, Selected Toolpath Elements group and the Animation group can still be revisited in this topic by expanding the drop down hot spots of the same name.

 

To work through an example utilizing this function, see the Edit Toolpath Example - Edit Tool Axis.

 

Actions

Command Mode

 

Selected Toolpath Elements

 

Parameters

 

 

CheckBoxSelected.png Show Tool Axis - enables the display of the current tool axis vectors for the selected toolpath entities.

CheckBoxCleared.png Show Tool Axis - does not show the current tool axis vectors.


NOTE:      This is a separate display from the Command Mode Preview. If the Show Tool Axis checkbox is selected, it will show, both, the current tool axis vectors, and the tool axis vectors as the will be, should the Action be Executed.


 

RadioButtonSelected.png Fixed Direction - allows you to modify the currently selected toolpath vectors to a fixed vector direction, by entering a vector value or by selecting a line.

 

RadioButtonClear.png Direction Interpolation - allows you to modify a chain of entities to smooth the vectors between the beginning entities tool axis vector and the end of the chains tool axis vector.

 


TIP:   When using Fixed Direction, keep in mind, if the tool axis of a toolpath elements is altered, it will begin with the tool axis of the last elements and end at the new tool axis. As such, to adjust an element along its entire length, the toolpath element that comes before will need to be altered with the same tool axis.
When using Direction Interpolation, at least three elements will need to be selected, as the function is designed to create a smooth shift between the tool axis of the first and last toolpath element. It is, therefore, not the first, or last toolpath elements being adjusted, but rather, all the tool path elements in between.


 

Animation

 

 

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