Creating Multiple Tool Paths within one part

[aomachining]

Hello! We recently just purchased a Lincoln Electric 4800 and we're still learning the overwhelming amount of stuff there is to learn. There's one thing that we really want to figure out how to do first before anything else. Is there anyway to create separate tool paths within one part? For example, we'd like to create multiple paths for the file attached so we can adjust the feeds and speeds. We've done a lot of research to figure it out, but we just can't seem to find anything. We've tried breaking the path and creating separate tool paths for each circle, but the lead ins develop on the outside and not the inside, and we've tried adjusting the starting point to the inside when that happens, but the instantreplay gets broken. Any kind of insight on this would be a big help, as we are very new in this realm of machining.

Thanks in advance!

[WyoGreen]

I don't have a clue as to what software the Lincoln setup uses, but I can talk about how what I use works and perhaps that will help you figure out to do what you want to do.
What I do (using Sheetcam) is put my inside cuts and outside cuts on different layers. Then I can set up individual cutting operations for each layer. I'll sometimes even separate small holes from big holes if need be. When the post processor is run in Sheetcam, these different layers and operations are still written out as one job, just the inside cuts are done first, then the outside cuts.

Hope that gives you a clue, Steve

[Ironken]

I don't have a clue as to what software the Lincoln setup uses, but I can talk about how what I use works and perhaps that will help you figure out to do what you want to do.
What I do (using Sheetcam) is put my inside cuts and outside cuts on different layers. Then I can set up individual cutting operations for each layer. I'll sometimes even separate small holes from big holes if need be. When the post processor is run in Sheetcam, these different layers and operations are still written out as one job, just the inside cuts are done first, then the outside cuts.

Hope that gives you a clue, Steve

That's exactly how I do it in Sheetcam.