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      <div class="title_topic5" id="xps10_pagetitle">Steep Containment</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">Steep Containment allows you to control the cut regions of one operation based on your input Steepness Angle. Those sections of the tool path, whose angle with the perpendicular plane of tool axis is greater than the specified steep angle, will be defined as Steep and the rest of the tool path sections will be considered as Non-steep. Therefore, the tool path breaks into the steep sections and non-steep sections, and you may use option None, Steep or Non-steep to output the required sections, and use Non-Steep Cut Direction and Steep Cut Direction to specify the required cutting directions for the non-steep and steep sections respectively. The allowable range of the Steep Angle value will be between 0 and 90 degrees.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">Note that a floor would have a steep angle of Zero degrees, and a wall would have a steep angle of 90 degrees.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">None outputs both the steep and non-steep sections of the tool path and respectively applies the Steep Cut Direction and Non-Steep Cut Direction to the sections. It allows one operation to machine the entire cut area.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">Steep outputs only the steep sections of the tool path and applies the Steep Cut Direction to these sections. &nbsp;With Steep, you can choose a Mixed, High to Low, or Low to High cut directions. &nbsp;Each of these is illustrated below.</p>
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      <div class="title_figure"> Steep with a Mixed Cut Direction</div>
      <p class="para_topic">In the figure above, the steep areas are being cut using the Mixed cut direction  <img align="bottom" src="graphics/mixed.gif" border="0">, indicated by the blue arrows at the top and the bottom of the tool path.
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      <div class="title_figure"> Steep with High to Low Cut Direction</div>
      <p class="para_topic">In the figure above, the steep areas are being cut using the High to Low cut direction  <img align="bottom" src="graphics/high_to_low.gif" border="0">, indicated by the blue arrows at the top of the tool path.
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      <div class="title_figure"> Steep with a Low to High Cut Direction</div>
      <p class="para_topic">In the figure above, the steep areas are being cut using the Low to High cut direction  <img align="bottom" src="graphics/low_to_high.gif" border="0">, indicated by the blue arrows at the bottom of the tool path.
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      <p class="para_topic">Non-steep outputs only the non-steep sections of the tool path and applies the Non-Steep Cut Direction to these sections (see the figure below).</p>
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