Recommended two-operation test
- Create a circular-opening Inside contour and an outside-profile contour.
- In Job sequence & output, click Off beside the outside-profile operation.
- Confirm the outside profile remains visible but subdued in 2D and 3D, and its operation card says Excluded.
- Play Complete job. Only the enabled circular opening should run. Select the excluded outside profile directly and confirm individual playback still works.
- Review combined G-code and confirm it contains only the circular-opening operation. Turn the outside profile back On and confirm both operations return in their numbered order.
- Save and reopen the project. The On/Off state should be preserved.
01 · JOB SEQUENCE
The operation remains stored
The On/Off control appears beside every stored operation. Off is deliberately different from Remove: it changes one persistent participation flag and leaves the complete operation setup intact. Re-enabling restores the operation at the same position in the job sequence.
Operations saved before this control existed are treated as enabled. The first later edit stores an explicit state without requiring a project-file migration.
02 · VISUAL CONTEXT
Excluded geometry stays recognizable
In 2D, an excluded toolpath is subdued and labeled Excluded. Its direct tab and start-marker drag targets are inactive until the operation is enabled again. In 3D, the channel and pass stack remain visible at reduced emphasis, and the operation summary uses a dashed treatment.
Selecting an excluded operation for individual 3D playback brings it back to full emphasis. This makes inspection possible without silently putting it back into the complete job.
03 · COMPLETE JOB
Only enabled operations participate
Complete-job animation, Safe-Z linking, operation-order validation, combined preflight, G-code review, and local NC export use the enabled subset in its visible numbered order. Disabled operations cannot make that combined job invalid. If every operation is Off, complete-job output is blocked with a direct instruction to enable at least one.
An excluded operation can still be inspected or exported individually from its own card. The On/Off switch controls complete-job participation; it is not an operation lock.
04 · PERSISTENCE
The state travels with the project
The operation flag is serialized inside the normal .cadiv document. Save, Save As, Open, undo, and redo treat it like the other CAM settings. Removing an operation remains the only action that deletes its configuration.