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Reopen & auto-regenerate

At a glance

  • Reopen a project and everything comes back—browser tree, and every toolpath regenerated automatically
  • Move a setup's work zero and every operation re-anchors to the new zero and rebuilds itself
  • Edit the part and only operations whose geometry actually moved regenerate; untouched ones don't flicker
  • When an edit removes geometry an op used, a Fix button and per-row Re-pick keep its side, tabs, leads, and settings

Mill operations are anchored to your model and your work zero, so they stay correct as the job evolves — reopen a file, move the zero, or edit the part, and the toolpaths update themselves instead of going stale.

Everything comes back the way you left it

Which components, setups, and sections you had expanded or collapsed — in both Drafting and Mill — saves into the project and comes back exactly as you left it. Open a project with Mill operations and every toolpath regenerates automatically in the background — spinners on the rows, cancel any time — so the backplot looks just like it did when you saved, without bloating the file with move data.

Move the zero, keep the toolpaths

Change a setup's work zero or orientation and every operation re-anchors its picked geometry to the new zero and regenerates automatically — no editing each operation to re-choose what you'd already picked.

Model edits regenerate only what they touch

Edit the part in Drafting and Mill re-resolves every operation's references: operations whose geometry actually moved rebuild themselves, and untouched ones don't so much as flicker.

Broken picks get a Fix button

When an edit removes geometry an operation referenced, the operation keeps its stale badge — and an inline Fix button opens the dialog with the broken entries called out in red, right in the viewport too. A per-row Re-pick button lets you click replacement geometry that keeps the entry's side, tabs, leads, and settings — you replace what geometry it points at without redoing how it cuts.