Rotary Contour milling strategy

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The Rotary Contour strategy is a finishing operation used to machine steep walls on rotary parts. You can also machine parts with spiraled walls, such as extruder screws.

Rotary Contour toolpath on an extruder screw

Rotary Contour toolpath on an extruder screw

You can use the Minimum Final Cutting Radius parameter to determine how much material to remove at the final stepdown to help finish the part.