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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Floor Stock/Minimum Clearance</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">The Floor Stock/Minimum Clearance option allows you to specify a value by which the tool or tool path is offset.</p>
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      <p class="para_division">The Floor Stock value leaves a specified amount of material on the part surface. Floor Stock is offset normal to the part surface. Note that you may not reliably specify a negative Floor Stock value greater than the tool radius.</p>
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      <p class="para_division">The Min Clear option protects the part during the initial and/or final tool positioning movements when used with Avoidance Geometry, Clearance Plane. This is applied if you request that the Clearance Plane be used at the start or the end of the tool path.</p>
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