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      <div class="title_topic4" id="xps10_pagetitle">Type = Mill_Contour</div>
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               <p class="para_th">Subtype</p>
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               <p class="para_th">Processor </p>
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               <p class="para_th">Description</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/cavity_mill.gif" border="0"> CAVITY_MILL
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               <p class="para_td">Cavity Milling</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Basic cavity milling, used to remove a volume of material defined by a blank or IPW and the part, with many cut patterns of planar cuts. Commonly used for roughing.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/zlevel_fol_core.gif" border="0"> ZLEVEL_FOLLOW_CORE
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               <p class="para_td">Cavity Milling</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Cuts outside of a shape, with a follow part cut pattern.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/zlevel_corn_rough.gif" border="0"> CORNER_ROUGH
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               <p class="para_td">Cavity Milling</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Cuts &nbsp;remaining material in corners that a previous tool could not reach due to its diameter and corner radius. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/zlevel_prof.gif" border="0"> ZLEVEL_PROFILE
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               <p class="para_td">Zlevel</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Basic zlevel milling, used to contour the part or cut area with planar cuts.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/zlevel_prof_steep.gif" border="0"> ZLEVEL_PROFILE_STEEP
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               <p class="para_td">Zlevel</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Same as ZLEVEL_PROFILE, but cuts only steep areas. Often used with CONTOUR_AREA_NON_STEEP to control scallops when finishing a cut area.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/zlevel_corn_finish.gif" border="0"> ZLEVEL_CORNER
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               <p class="para_td">Zlevel</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Finishes the corner areas that a previous tool could not reach due to its diameter and corner radius. </p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/fixed_contour.gif" border="0"> FIXED_CONTOUR
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               <p class="para_td">Surface Contouring</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Basic fixed axis surface contouring, used to contour the part or cut area with various drive methods, containment, and cut patterns. The tool axis is +ZM.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/contour_area.gif" border="0"> CONTOUR_AREA
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               <p class="para_td">Surface Contouring</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Area milling drive, used to cut selected faces or a cut area with various cut patterns. Commonly used for semi finishing and finishing.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/contour_area_non_steep.gif" border="0"> CONTOUR_AREA_NON_STEEP
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               <p class="para_td">Surface Contouring</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Same as CONTOUR_AREA, but only cuts the non-steep areas. Often used with ZLEVEL_PROFILE_STEEP to control scallops when finishing a cut area.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/contour_area_dir_steep.gif" border="0"> CONTOUR_AREA_DIR_STEEP
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               <p class="para_td">Surface Contouring</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Area milling drive, used to cut only the non-steep areas, based on cut direction. Used with CONTOUR_ZIGZAG or CONTOUR_AREA to reduce scallops by criss-crossing a previous zig-zag cut.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/contour_surf_area.gif" border="0"> CONTOUR_SURFACE_AREA
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               <p class="para_td">Surface Contouring</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Surface area drive, which follows the U-V directions of a single drive surface, or a rectangular grid of surfaces.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/flowcut_single.gif" border="0"> FLOWCUT_SINGLE
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               <p class="para_td">Surface Contouring</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Flowcut drive method, single pass, used to finish or relieve corners and valleys.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/flowcut_multiple.gif" border="0"> FLOWCUT_MULTIPLE
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               <p class="para_td">Surface Contouring</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Flowcut drive method, multiple passes, used to finish or relieve corners and valleys.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/flowcut_ref_tol.gif" border="0"> FLOWCUT_REF_TOOL
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               <p class="para_td">Surface Contouring</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Flowcut drive method, multiple passes based on a previous reference tool diameter, used for rest milling of corners and valleys.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/flowcut_smooth.gif" border="0"> FLOWCUT_SMOOTH
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               <p class="para_td">Surface Contouring</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Same as FLOWCUT_REF_TOOL, but with smooth engages, retracts, and traversals. This is used for high speed machining.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/contour_text.gif" border="0"> CONTOUR_TEXT
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               <p class="para_td">Surface Contouring</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Cuts the text in a drafting note, used for 3D engraving.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/profile_3D.gif" border="0"> PROFILE_3D
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               <p class="para_td">Planar milling</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Special 3D profile cut type, the depth is determined by the edges or curves in the boundary. This is often used for trim dies.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/mill_user.gif" border="0"> MILL_USER
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               <p class="para_td">User defined</p>
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               <p class="para_td">This tool path is generated by your custom NX Open program.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/mill_control.gif" border="0"> MILL_CONTROL
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               <p class="para_td">Machine control</p>
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               <p class="para_td">This contains only machine control events.</p>
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