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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Angle, Angle, Distance</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">Angle, Angle, Distance allows you to specify a move in terms of two angles and a distance. The angles determine the direction of the engage motion, and the distance value determines the length.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">A positive Angle 1 value is measured based on the direction of the first cut. Starting with a vector tangent to the first cut at the first point to be machined, a positive Angle 1 value is measured counterclockwise in a plane tangent to the part surface.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">A positive Angle 2 value is measured clockwise in a plane normal to the part surface containing the vector described by Angle 1. A negative Angle 2 value is measured counterclockwise.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Distance is the length of the engage motion. A positive value is measured from the first point to be machined in the direction established by angles 1 and 2. A negative value is measured in the direction opposite that established by angles 1 and 2.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">When you generate the tool path, the tool moves the specified distance in the direction established by angles 1 and 2 to the first point to be machined.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">In Planar Milling, if the first segment of the boundary &quot;disappears&quot; from the tool path (see the previous discussion for Angle, Angle, Plane), the specified angle and distance may produce an undesirable engage move and you must then respecify the engage data.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">Enter the angle and distance values.</p>
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