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      <p class="para_topic">Gouge Checking is available only when manual cut pattern is selected. This will prevent the tool from violating the part geometry. &nbsp;If you want to use gouge checking, select part geometry as Part in the geometry parent group or the operation.</p>
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                  <p class="para_warning_body">Do not use tapered tools in face milling. &nbsp;When the system checks for gouges and collisions, it checks only the tip diameter. &nbsp;Therefore, the taper of the tool could violate the part at some point above the face.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">Gouge Checking can handle only five-parameter cutters. &nbsp;T-cutters or barrel cutters aren't supported. This is also true for the gouge checker in Visualize &rarr; Replay.</p>
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