CNC CAM: RouterCut

RouterCut 6.1.0 delivers a major CAM engine upgrade with adaptive clearing, true morphing spirals, multi-pass V-carving optimization, contour ramping, multi-core parallel processing, and fail-closed CNC safety. Adaptive Clearing & Pocketing: - Adaptive Clearing Planner: Limits cutter engagement angle by stepover to prevent corner overload and full-slotting. Supports climb and conventional milling. - Morphing Spiral Pockets: Blends continuously between offset loops with vertex densification and clearance checks, eliminating gouges and level jumps. - Stay-Down Linking: Roughing passes link at depth within cleared pockets, eliminating redundant retracts. - Floor Cleanup & Wall Contours: Clears leftover cusps before finishing. Raster pockets add a wall perimeter contour to remove scallops. - Rest Machining: Rest passes strictly target stock missed by previous tools. High-Precision V-Carving: - Shape-by-Shape Pass Ordering: Finishes all depth passes per shape before moving to the next, reducing rapid air moves by up to 70% on complex jobs. - Incremental Pass Stepping: Strictly honors max depth per pass across all V-carve cuts instead of cutting full depth in one pass. - Flat-Floor Clearing: Clears flat floors with concentric passes when V-carves reach geometric limits, stock thickness, or bit cone height. - Medial Axis Snapping & Depth Clamping: Snaps nodes to the medial axis and clamps depths to local boundaries, preventing constriction gouges. - Plunge-Rate Throttling: Automatically caps steep V-bit dives into corners to the tool plunge rate. - Star Junction Preservation: Preserves all arms of star junctions, keeping sharp tips intact without collapsing geometry. Procedural 3D Relief Studio: - Cross-Finishing Pass: Optional secondary finishing pass (at 90 degrees or pattern angle) for glass-smooth relief textures. - Contour Ramping: Surface entries descend along a ~10 degree zig-zag ramp following terrain tracks rather than plunging vertically. - Two-Tool Relief Strategy: Combines flat endmill roughing with fine ball-nose finishing and pattern-following toolpaths. - Tolerance Merging & Fast Planning: Merges collinear moves within 0.005 mm to compress G-code. Tile-maxima scanning speeds up planning up to 4x. Profiles, Inlays & Prisms: - Profile Contour Ramping: Closed profiles and inlay plugs descend at a 3 degree angle along the contour itself, ramping smoothly over tabs. - Waste-Side Lead-ins: Guarantees approach from the waste side for inside/outside cuts, with Climb and Conventional controls. - Matched Inlays: Synchronized pocket and plug calculation (InlayFit) with clearance compensation and neck interference checks. - Design-Wide Prism Beveling: Offsets boundaries and inner holes together, preventing overlapping features from gouging adjacent bevels. Performance & CNC Safety: - Parallel Multi-Core Processing: Native scoped-thread scheduling accelerates V-carving (~3.4x), pocketing (~4x), and prisms (~3x). - PointGrid & 2-Opt Ordering: Spatial indexing and neighbor-pruned 2-opt TSP drop path sequencing on 1,600 contours from 27s to 0.13s. - Fail-Closed Safety Guardrails: Rejects non-finite coordinates (NaN/Inf), depths exceeding flute lengths, zero spindle speeds, and relief shank collisions.