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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Clearances Parameters</div>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgmilling/09topic_73.html');return(false);">Geometry</a></p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">The following Clearance parameters apply to fixed and variable contour operations.</p><a name="com_cut_cut_param-clear"></a><table base="file:///D:/perforce/workdocs/XPS/products/nx/nx5/english/tdoc/mfgmilling/entities/cut_param-clear.xml" border="1" cellspacing="0" id="com_cut_cut_param-clear" align="center">
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               <p class="para_th">Clearance Parameters</p>
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgmilling/contour_cut_prtchck_safeclear.html');return(false);">Part Safe Clearance</a> 
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               <p class="para_td">Specifies an additional clearance distance on top of the Part Stock Offset for part surfaces and Check Stock for check surfaces</p>
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgmilling/cont_areadrv_gouge.html');return(false);">When Gouging</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Contour milling</p>
               <p class="para_td">Lets you specify how to respond when the tool gouges check geometry during cutting moves.</p>
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                     <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Warning</b> causes the system to issue only a warning message to the tool path and the CLSF. It does not alter the tool path to avoid gouging the Check Geometry.
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                     <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Skip</b> causes the tool to omit the tool positions which gouge the Check Geometry. It produces a straight tool movement from the last tool position before gouging the Check Geometry to the first tool position which is no longer gouging as illustrated below.
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                     <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Retract</b> causes the tool to avoid gouging the Check Geometry by using the Check Engage and Retract parameters defined in Non-Cutting moves as illustrated below.
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