Hey ya'll,
Does anyone know if it's possible to disable the automatic pocketing passes for DXF's produced through MV?
Using a tool that's diameter is smaller than half the width of the pocket, MV automatically adds some additional passes so ensure the entire route gets properly pocketed. However, with our current setup, we have Cut Rite do this for us, and having MV do it is causing Cut Rite to generate incorrect code.
Our current workflow involves generating DXF's from MV and then importing those files into Cut Rite to generate the actual g-code to send out to our machines, so we need the DXF layers/tool paths to only be the outline of the path. Currently MV and Cut Rite are set up so that the layer names in the DXF's correspond to specific pocketing or standard tools in Cut Rite. I've attached two screenshots of the current output and what we'd like to have as the output so it's clear.
I haven't been able to find an simple toggle option that will disable this in MV, but I was wondering if anyone is familiar with the routing sequence portion of the tool files. Editing the toolfile as a spreadsheet, under the "routing sequence" tab it seems like it might be possible to edit this to completely disable pocketing by editing the routing sequence in the 2nd column of the screenshot I attached. Does anyone know if this is possible at all or is the pocketing being generated before it even gets to the routing sequence?
Please let me know if you have any ideas how to disable this, or if you have any other ideas how to resolve it. I know I could technically solve this by always selecting a tool that has a diameter larger than half the width of the pocket, but that's not always possible and it would be a lot of work to ensure it's setup correctly for every machine token.
I'm pretty new to MV and even less familiar with Cut Rite, so if ya'll think it would make more sense to solve this by changing something in Cut Rite, I'd love to hear it too. Thanks!