About Side Compensation with Trace

Trace allows you to compensate the tool to the left and right of the selected contours.



Sideways compensation direction

This works like the compensation direction parameter available on the 2D Contour and Multi-Axis contour strategies, and offsets to the left or right of the selected geometry, while still obeying the changes in Z.



Large-scale Trace profiling



Undercutting with a slot mill and Trace