Fluting toolpath

Fluting toolpath

Fluting toolpath

Use the fluting toolpath to create and control ramping cuts along vectors. This toolpath is ideal for creating designs on wooden doors, or woven patterns around coins.

Click the Create Fluting Toolpath  button on the Toolpaths panel to display the Fluting panel. Use the Fluting panel to control:

  • whether a selection of vectors, or the artwork on a specific vector layer, is machined.
  • the Z profile of the flute using a vector.
  • the length of the start and end flutes.
  • woven patterns from intersecting vectors.

After you have calculated the toolpath, you can simulate it.

See also

  • Simulating toolpaths

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