You can use the Wall tab of the Milling Feature Properties dialog to control the roughing and finishing of milled features with a draft angle or bottom radius.
Side Roughing
Auto — This automates the roughing of features with a bottom radius or a draft angle. FeatureCAM automatically chooses tools, and the number of steps to manufacture the part. If you want specific control, turn off Auto and the other fields become active.
Flat-end mill — Enable this option to create a draft flat operation, which roughs the bottom radius and possibly the walls with a flat-end mill. Enter a number of Steps to use (in the Z direction) or leave the Steps field blank to use the Draft flat scallop height attribute on the Milling tab to control the number of steps.
Radius mill — Enable this option to create a draft radius operation which roughs the bottom radius and possibly the walls with a ball-end or bull nose mill. Enter a number of Steps to use (in the Z direction) or leave the Steps field blank to use the Draft radius scallop height attribute on the Milling tab to control the number of steps.
Tapered mill — Select this option to create a draft taper operation, which roughs the walls with a tapered endmill. Enter a number of Steps to use (in the Z direction). This option is available only for tapered features.
Bottom up — Enable this option to rough the bottom radius or tapered region from the bottom up, otherwise the roughing is performed from the top down.
Side Finishing
These settings affect how FeatureCAM performs finishing of a draft angle feature including bottom radius features.
Choose from the following options:
Automatic — Enable this option to let FeatureCAM decide how to finish the side wall and/or bottom radius of the feature.
Radius mill — Enable this option to create a finish pass operation that finishes the wall and bottom radius with a radius tool. This could be either a finish pass bull nose or ball end tool. The Radius tool scallop height attribute on the Milling tab controls the scallop height of the operation.
Tapered mill — Enable this option to create a finish taper operation that finishes the side wall up to the bottom radius, if any, with a tapered mill that matches the feature's defined taper. If no tool matches the draft angle, an error message is displayed.
Bottom up — Enable this option to finish the walls starting at the bottom of the feature, otherwise the finishing is performed from the top down.