[Devastator]

I'm machining a large mold that has just a couple areas that need fine detail with a small ball cutter. In Aspire Is there a way to isolate just those areas that need the details cleaned up instead of doing a finish pass on the whole piece? The reason is that if I skim the whole piece it will take 40 hours because the mold is fairly large.

[islaww]

Draw a boundary around the area you wish to cut with the small bit. Select the model, then the boundary. In the 3d finish toolpath dialog check "Selected Vector" as boundary. You should be good to go

[Devastator]

Thank you! It took me awhile to figure that out, but you described it pretty well. I drew boxed boundaries then selected "closed vectors" in my toolpath screen. I've been wondering about how to do that for a long time. That saves me about 39 hours of basically air cutting.

[Mike 1948]

Another alternative might be Rest machining, Aspire will machine only the difference between the two tools in areas you pick. See the tutorials or here is a link that explains it fairly well : Legacy CNC - Aspire Rest

Mike

[victorofga]

long time I made a post about...
it was weird for me, surface has not features.. like other modeling prorams..
that was also reason I abandoned this program..

that restmachining good idea but pending very much on the resolution..

I used a ""virtual"" engraving toolpath to locate positions..

Vectric Forum ? View topic - "trimwork" with aspire

I made this topic about 6 years ago... aspire just barely got out.. probably new versions has different icons or controls..