Learn/Plasma/Toolpath Generation & Post-Processing
Toolpath Visualization
At a glance
- Color-coded preview directly on the sheet view
- Green: lead-in segments
- Red: cutting path
- Orange: lead-out segments
- Direction arrows showing cut direction on each contour
- Rule-colored contour-edge highlights for matched and skipped contours
As soon as toolpaths generate, they draw right on the sheet view — every kerf-offset path, lead, rapid, and pierce, exactly where the torch will go. It's the check between Generate and Post: wrong lead placement, a contour cutting the wrong direction, or a missing cut is visible at a glance.
What's drawn
Cut paths render in the toolpath color, with lead-ins and lead-outs in their own contrasting colors so you can see where each contour pierces and where it exits. Rapid moves between cuts are dashed, drawn fainter than cutting moves. Direction arrows sit every half inch along each contour — held at constant screen size as you zoom — showing exactly which way the torch travels, with lighter arrows on the rapids showing traverse order. Center-spot pierces draw a cross marker at the pierce point, and tabs appear as kerf-width bridges across the cut.
Colors and state
Every element — cut line, arc, lead-in, lead-out, rapid, arrows, pierce marker — is a theme token, editable in the Custom Theme editor, so the defaults (green cut, blue lead-in, red lead-out, gray rapids) can be tuned to your display. Contours matched by contour rules get a bold edge overlay in the rule's own color, including contours a rule skipped, while toolpath colors stay theme-controlled. Move or edit a part and its toolpaths fade to a dimmed "stale" state — dirty paths never show rule highlights, so you're never reading feedback from a previous generate.