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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Cut Order</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">The cutting parameter, Cut Order, &nbsp;is common to Planar Milling, Cavity Milling, and Zlevel Milling.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">Cut Order allows you to specify how a cutter path with multiple regions will be processed. When there is more than one area at a cut level to be machined, you have two methods of ordering how these areas will be cut as they are propagated to successive cut levels:</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">Level First indicates that the tool path is to finish each level before engaging further down. This can be useful when working with thin wall pockets.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">Depth First indicates that the system is to cut each pocket to full depth, as encountered. In other words, the tool does not leave the pocket until reaching the bottom.</p>
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