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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Towards Corner</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">A face or diameter zone can contain multiple boundary segments.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">In this cutting strategy:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Only those faces or diameters that are adjacent at a detected concave corner are cut. It does not cut any edge breaks nor round convex corners that are beyond these faces.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">If you change direction, the direction of the motions is always the same (to the middle of the corner), but the software inverts the sequence of the corners and corner shanks.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The software always sets the <b class="uiTerm">Stop At</b> position on the corner shank to be cut first (depending on direction). <b class="uiTerm">Stop At</b> is not applied to spring passes.
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            <p class="para_item">Each finish pass ends in an automatic retract motion, that is controlled by the software, to move the tool away from the part.</p>
            <p class="para_item">To extend the length of this retract motion, specify a suitable <b class="uiTerm">Minimum Distance</b> value for <b class="uiTerm">Automatic Engage/Retract</b> in the operation&rsquo;s method group.
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                        <p class="para_note_body">The automatic retract move extends to either the <b class="uiTerm">Minimum Distance</b> value or the <b class="uiTerm">Auto Circular Radius</b> value (<b class="uiTerm">Engage/Retract</b>&rarr;<b class="uiTerm">Retract</b>&rarr;<b class="uiTerm">Auto Circular Radius</b>), depending on which is larger.
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