Open sided cut, cuts inside first

Kiri:Moto CAM
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I made a very simple object to show the issue.
kmtest.kmz (218.3 KB)

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When I step through the animation, the second cut is an inside cut:

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Is there some way on an open sided piece like this to force cutting from the open side in, instead of cutting a slot?

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Never mind. It works fine if I switch from roughing to contour.

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roughing and pocketing use completely different strategies. I will be rewriting the path engine for 4.0 to fix cases like this

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I’ll definitely be looking forward to the update.
I end up still having a problem. Contour could work as I want, but in my machine, the cut is rotated 180 degrees from where contour starts, so I still end up with an inside cut. More detail:

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This is a drawing of the cut I want. Stepping through the contour, the tool starts at the origin and takes off layers starting on the open side of the cut, exactly what I want.
The problem is that in reality, the stock is held in an angle fixture. I can’t just rotate the stock, I need to rotate the fixture (which could be done). Before I tear things apart I am asking if there is a way to mirror the origin position (or something like that).
Here is what it looks like in my machine (note origin location):
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In this case, the tool starts at the origin. When it clears the top, then it steps down and does an inside cut.
I tried using origin offset, but that doesn’t change where the tool starts.
Mirroring the object, either in the stl file or in Kiri:Moto, gives me the second image.

Any way to do what I’m after in Kiri:Moto, or should I just rearrange my fixture?

Thanks,
Steve

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In 4.0 I will also be adding block out regions for clamping. I don’t have a better solution for that at the moment.

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Thanks Stewart, I’ll modify my setup.