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title: "Pattern-based definition of tool paths"
description: "For robotics painting, powder-coating. sand-blasting, cleaning, sanding, grinding, glueing, or 3D measurement with (moving) scanners of larger areas robot programmers employ \"standard\" motions, such as meanders for faster robot offline programming. For those standard motions, AUTOMAPPPS offers patterns for meanders,…"
url: "https://convergent-it.com/it/tutorial/process-tool-paths-it/pattern-based-definition-of-tool-paths-it/"
updated: "2025-12-06"
category: "Process & tool-paths"
tags:
  - Setup Editor
---

# Pattern-based definition of tool paths

For robotics painting, powder-coating. sand-blasting, cleaning, sanding, grinding, glueing, or 3D measurement with (moving) scanners of larger areas robot programmers employ "standard" motions, such as meanders for faster robot offline programming. For those standard motions, AUTOMAPPPS offers patterns for meanders, spirals, cylindric motions, circular motions etc.

The following video shows how to apply a meander to paint a section of a commercial vehicle.

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