Creating contour on selected curved areas only

Hello again … This is a continuation of the same steel part I want to make on my CNC machine. How do I produce a contour path on selected contours only? Currently the contour operation seems to select all the curves or more than I want. The simulation seems sort of OK but the contouring is milling more metal than I require. Is there something I can add in the filter? Got no idea how the filter works and get code to add there if that is actually what has to be done. .kmz file attached.

0.75 module cutter.kmz (259.1 KB)

use the area operation in surface mode. here is an example. you can discretely surface the four areas. repeat the operation with any number of angle settings.

area-surfacing.kmz (563.3 KB)

This is great .. it works! - I need to check it out on my machine when I’m back in my workshop. In the meantime I will make a donation - Thanks again

This is indeed great – but where is the “area” operation, or “surface mode”? Maybe I should search the UI again after my first coffee…

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much appreciated.

@pgf area hasn’t been formally documented yet. it’s on my roadmap to have each UI operation have a link to an external docs page with companion youtube video. lots of work, as you can imagine.