Editing toolpaths

PowerMill includes intuitive toolpath editing functionality which enables you to easily reorder or remove segments of a toolpath, and to modify the properties of toolpath segements such as start and end points. tool axis, and point distribution.

Toolpath editing helps you to tidy up unwanted toolpath segments, which leads to more efficient toolpaths. Additionally toolpath editing is used to improve the safety of your toolpaths by avoiding collisions or alleviating problems on specific machine tools. For example, editing the tool axis across a segment to avoid a clamp.

You can access many of the functions you need to edit toolpaths from the Toolpath Edit tab on the ribbon.