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PENCIL TOLPATH


mirek1017
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The Pencil toolpath is designed to clean up the intersections between walls and floors (the ball of tool needs to touch the wall and floor at the same time) and to do this it looks for sharp edges (for example the internal corner of the letter "L").  Basically if it cannot find sharp corners then it won't generate a toolpath. 

There are execptions to this... if there is a radius in the corners and they are less than the radius of your ballnose tool then you should still get a result.  But If the radius in the corners are equal to or greater than your ballnose radius you can use the Overthickness command to trick the toolpath into finding enough material to run the tool between the floor and walls.  I can see that you have already tried to use Overthickness so if you make it even bigger (try 0.1 and then re-adjust the stepover and number of passes) then you should get a resonable result.

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