On my current part, I need to have KM do outlining, to properly define the outer dimensions of the part, but I need to have it only do that outlining for the upper half of the part – going to the bottom would mean carving my clamps.
The easiest way to accomplish this today is to edit the G-code file to remove the final few rectangular passes around the part. (The comments in the G-code make this trivial.)
But that got me wondering – if I were doing anything more complicated, I’d probably like some verification. Would it be at all feasible to have a “emulate imported G-code” mode?
Hah! Well look at that. Indeed, z-bottom does exactly what I want. I must have missed that in the user’s manual! Thanks. I should have known there was a way.