About the graphical toolpath editor

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.

Next to the Simple and the Programmable type, as well as the EBPA type, the Diagram is another type a configuration can be defined in, and the graphical toolpath editor is the tool to do so, providing a place to arrange these basic calculation steps in a toolpath generation and to chain 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.

The editor provides undo&redo as well as copy&paste functionality for ease of use and to replicate filter settings.