safety height

The latest release of PyCAM (v0.4) displays the cutting paths and the “safe” moves (at safety height) in a quite simplistic way. Basically the “safe” moves are visualized as direct connections between the previous and the next cutting move. Thus some users were confused by the “line” going through the material. It was not obvious that this move occours at safety height and thus will not touch the model.

The latest development code of PyCAM improves the visualization by adding the moves up to safety height and down to the next cutting location. Thus the visual result is now quite close to the view used by [Bad Link]. Read more »