Use the
Feature Rest Area Clearance strategy to eliminate large terraces. Area clearance strategies carry out efficient volume removal with a large tool and then rest area clearance strategies use a smaller tool to rough areas of the feature set that the large tool could not reach, such as pockets and corners.
There are several pages associated with the
Feature Rest Area Clearance strategy:
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Feature rest area clearance — The main page used to choose the area clearance styles and associated settings.
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Rest
— Settings to define rest machining.
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Raster
— Settings to define a raster area clearance style. This page is available when you select a
Style of
Raster on the main page.
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Offset
— Settings to define offset area clearance styles. This page is available when you select a
Style
of
Offset model or
Offset all on the main page.
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Vortex
— Settings to define a Vortex area clearance style. This page is available when you select a
Style of
Vortex
on the main page.
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Step cutting
— Settings to define in-line rest roughing. This minimises terracing when creating area clearance toolpaths with a large stepdown. This is available when you select a
Stepdown of
Automatic.
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Finishing
— Settings to perform a
Final Stepover and a
Final Stepdown which are different from the normal stepover and stepdown.
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Unsafe segment removal
— Settings to remove small toolpath segments.
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High speed
— Settings to control smoothing options to avoid sharp changes in tool direction when high speed machining. This page is only available for offset styles.
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Order
— Settings to control the order of machining.
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Approach
— Settings to control how the tool approaches the path.
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Automatic verification
— Settings to automatically verify toolpaths on creation.
Note: Cutter compensation is not available for rest machining strategies.
The remaining pages are
common toolpath strategy pages.