Drag and drop function blocks and chain their inputs and outputs to define toolpath calculation
Producing the actual toolpaths from tracing a 3D shape's contours follows a formulaic approach. The calculation of the build process is broken down into basic steps such as applying hatching, generating an offset, filtering for intersections, and many others. Chained together, their result is the final toolpath.
The Graphical Toolpath Editor provides a graphical interface for arranging these basic steps and chaining them together.
The toolpath calculation operates on slice stacks, or a list of layers representing either an outer geometry or the hatches (line filling of an area) of a part. The slice stacks for the part and the supports are recognized individually. Filters are used to operate on and modify these slice stacks.