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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Benefits of Using Face Milling</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">Face Milling provides the following benefits:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Interaction is very simple, because you just select all the faces to be machined and specify the amount of stock to be removed from the top of each face.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">When regions are close together and are the same height, they can be machined together, saving time because you eliminate some of the engage and retract moves. Combining regions also yields the most efficient tool path because the cutter is not traveling as far in between cutting regions.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Face Milling provides a quick and easy means of describing the stock that needs to be removed from the tops of selected faces. The stock is modeled from the face up instead of in a top-down fashion.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Face Milling allows you to easily machine planar faces on a solid, such as the standing pads commonly found on castings.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The solid on which the faces reside is recognized as part geometry when the regions are created. If the solid body is selected as part, you can use gouge checking to avoid gouges to the part.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Different cut patterns can be used for each face to be machined, including a manual cut pattern, in which you use a Teach Mode to drive the cutter.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The cutter will run off of standing pads, completely clearing the part before lifting.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">When cutting across voids, you can have the cutter maintain the cut, without any lifts.</p>
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