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betti cad reach

Which ways a cutter reaches a STEP, IGES, JT or Parasolid part's faces from: the fewest directions, as setups of a three-axis machine, that reach all any does; faces reached from none; faces deep below the stock through a narrow way.

cad module Granted on request: see access and licensing.

Usage

Shell

betti cad reach [flags] in.step

In a script this is cad.reach(…), its flags as keywords; for coding agents, the tool cad_reach.

Examples

Shell

betti cad reach part.step
betti cad reach -pocket-ratio 3 -map reach.vtu part.step
betti cad reach -json part.step > reach.json

Flags

Flag	Takes	Default	Meaning
`-map`	text	none	write the part tessellated, each triangle with its setup (1 on, 0 for none, of its first point) and the most depth to width of its points, to this file (.vtu, .msh and .ply keep them)
`-pocket-ratio`	number	`4`	the most a face may lie below the stock's top, in diameters of the widest cutter that fits down to it
`-spacing`	length or number	`1% of the part's size`	about how far apart the points judged lie, such as 0.5 or 1%

Output flags

Flag	Takes	Default	Meaning
`-json`	switch	off	print the result as JSON
`-q`	switch	off	print nothing but errors
`-skip`	names	none	switch off steps of the work by their names, separated by commas, as the built-in help lists them
`-v`	switch	off	also show the stages of each step, and their times

This page is generated from betti help cad reach. Lengths are absolute, or a percentage of the part's bounding-box diagonal, as in -size 1%.