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MillPath docs

MillPath turns a drawing into G-code for your CNC machine, in your browser. Start with Getting started, and run the controller check before your first real job. Looking for something? Use the search box at the top of the menu (Ctrl+K), or the line at the top of the ? menu in the app.

Start here

• Getting started: from opening MillPath to a program running on your machine.
• The interface: the screen and its buttons.
• Drawing and editing shapes: import DXF, DWG and SVG, draw, edit nodes, text.
• Your machine: one machine type for CNC routers and mills, your units, tools and the post.

Making toolpaths

• Operations: every router and mill operation and every setting.
• Nesting on a sheet: sheet goods such as plywood and MDF; placement, turning, part in part, remnants, several sheets.
• Parts, costs and quotes: parts from a few sizes, a job’s cost and a quote.
• 3D models (beta): STEP, IGES, STL and OBJ, roughing and finishing.
• Tools and feeds: tool types, the library, feed from the chip load.
• Heights and depths: clearance, retract, feed height, Z zero.

Running it on the machine

• Safety checks and messages: what each message means and how to fix it.
• Controller check: try your post in the air, step by step.
• Send to machine (GRBL): run a GRBL machine straight from the browser.
• Learn a post: let MillPath write the way a file that already runs on your machine does.
• Reports and feedback: tell us how a program ran; what the post badges mean.

Your account and more

• Your account: signing in, plans, the trial, backup, shared computers.
• Units and fractions: inches, millimetres, 3/4 and 1 1/2.
• Offline and install: use MillPath without internet, like an app.

Questions: the Feedback button, or support@millpath.app.