Too many toolpaths

X-Carve Troubleshooting
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I am trying to carve a pretty simple image on my x-carve. However, when I go into Easel and use simulate I get way too many toolpaths. Any ideas?

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Thank you Phil for responding. I tried what you suggested but it did not make a difference. I also should have been more specific. I have been carving for over a year and have not had this problem until a few days ago. I tried to upload a picture of what I see but for some reason, it won’t upload.

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You could share the Easel file :slight_smile:

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How do I do that? Share the Easel file, I mean

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Open file, click meny File -> Share and make public and share URL :slight_smile:

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http://easel.inventables.com/projects/8ibVmYuMNKa31f1D7O5mVg#

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Technically the file seem fine, however the bit size is very small (0.0625") and a lot of the carve objects are set to “Fill”.
Due to the size of your project and small bit size Easel calculate >2hrs for the job.

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Haldor, I show about 75 different toolpaths. How many do you see?

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A few :wink:
Inventables have been doing a bit on the tool path optimising very recently, perhaps this is what you observe?

Tried an image upload from my end but it never stopped uploading…

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maybe. that was the problem I was having with upload. thank you for your help.

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I think this post isn’t too old to reactivate :wink:

I am facing the same problem like LouSundberg with too many toolpaths ([Easel - Fluegel]). The object is pretty easy, doesn’t have to have a perfect edges and the work is done after approximately 4min.
In my SVG I deleted every unnessary path.

Plus: The ‘tabs’ (correct term for these little ‘bridges’?) aren’t realized.

I appreciate the Inventables ecosystem a lot - thanks for your great work done in last years, when I bought my ShapeOko :)!

Daniel
Lueneburg, Germany

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Sorry, maybe because of my poor English-skills: I don’t understand. Do you mean, I can’t expect a shorter GCode? The work-piece is done with under 1000 lines of code. The generated code contains more than 10000. Is there a way to change this?

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Yes, of course! But for this work-piece it seemed to be too much.
And indeed: It is ;)! I feed my Shapeoko with the GCodeSender and didn’t realized, that I choose the wrong, not optimized file. Now i works with 2000 lines, perfect! Problem solved!

Thanks PhilJohnson!