From the course: Learning RhinoCAM

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Toolpath simulation

Toolpath simulation

Okay, now even though our tool paths are complete we still have to run simulations before we can post process them and send them out to the CNC mill. It's much better that a mistake happen here where there's no damage to be caused as opposed to, of course, throwing this thing up on a big expensive machine. So step one, I will go to interior. Right-click and hit simulate. And usually these happen pretty quick. You'll also see that the simulations aren't necessarily perfect. So these ridges aren't, it's not guaranteed that the ridges will show up in the final product which make the simulation good but not a perfect example of what you can hope to see. If I want to improve that result I can head up on the simulate tab to preferences. I can switch to, for example, polygonal which is a better sort of simulation. And then I can also turn up simulation mode and accuracy to fine and maximum. So let's hit OK. And that's going to invalidate the simulation I just did,so I will need to simulate…

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