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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Relative Linear</div>
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               <p class="para_td">Using an angle and a distance value, you can influence in which direction the tool approaches and leaves the part. In contrast to an Angle Distance method, here the angle is relative to the angle of the adjacent motion.</p>
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      <div class="title_figure">Relative Linear Engage/Retract Method with an Angle = 0 and Distance = 3 where </div>
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               <p class="para_td">Engage Motion</p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">If you use the relative linear engage or retract options in grooving, you could see a situation like this:</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Engage Motion</p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">In the above figure, the engage or retract motion is relative to the preceding motion. For the engage, the angle is 0, the same angle with which the tool is approaching the material. For the retract motion, the tool lifts at 90 relative to the succeeding/preceding profiling motion.</p>
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