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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Contour Roughing dialog box options</div>
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               <p class="para_td">Contour Roughing Zig incrementally approaches the part's profile during roughing. This is achieved by letting the tool follow equidistant curves, one per pass, such that the last pass coincides with the part profile. Steep elements at the beginning or at the end of the part profile are not contoured or treated as with the contouring options of straight level cutting.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Contour Roughing Zig Zag behaves as described above with the exception that it additionally reverses the cutting direction after each roughing pass.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">The Contour Roughing Dialog is customizable so the options available vary according to your needs. The following is an overview of the available options. For more information about customizing your environment see CAM &rarr; Manufacturing General &rarr; Customizing your Environment.</p>
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               <p class="para_th">Contour Roughing Dialog</p>
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               <p class="para_th">Method/Geometry/Tool</p>
               <p class="para_th">Edit/Select/Display</p>
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               <p class="para_td">This is the Group Editing section of the dialog. From here you may select, edit or display the Method, Geometry or Tool with which you would like to work</p>
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turn_r_cut_depth.html');return(false);">Cut Depth</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Cut Depth allows you to specify the depth of cut for each pass during the roughing operation. This value can be either a fixed user-specified value or a system-calculated variable value based on specified minimum and maximum values.</p>
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turn_r_level_angle.html');return(false);">Level Angle</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">The level angle allows you to define the orientation for the individual level cuts which are computed by the system in straight linear roughing operations. The interactive arrow beside the input field gives you a visual cue as to the direction you have chosen for the cut.</p>
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               <p class="para_th">Direction</p>
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               <p class="para_td">The Direction toggle button allows you to invert the (initial) cutting direction for finishing/profiling passes with respect to the direction given by boundary orientation or through profiling-related roughing parameters.</p>
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turn_r_reversal_mode.html');return(false);">Reversal Mode</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Reversal Mode determines in which sequence the reversals of a cut region (i.e. the valleys of the part boundary found in this cut region) are visited for material removal.</p>
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turn_r_cleanup.html');return(false);">Cleanup</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">The Cleanup Parameter initiates a series of cuts meant to remove stairs left behind by rough cuts.</p>
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               <p class="para_th">Additional Profiling</p>
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               <p class="para_td">This option may be seen as the &quot;on/off&quot; switch for  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turn_mp_profiling.html');return(false);">Profiling</a>. If selected, the additional profiling option performs a cleanup of the part surface after multiple rough cuts have been made. In contrast to the  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turn_r_cleanup.html');return(false);">Cleanup</a> option, profiling is meant to follow either the entire part boundary or certain portions of it which describe individual reversals. This is sequenced in a way that all rough cuts for the entire cut region or for the respective reversal currently machined are carried out first, and only then does the profiling take place.
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/06topic_27.html');return(false);">Containment</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">The Geometry Containment dialog allows you to specify a containment in order to delimit the machining to a specific area of the part.</p>
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               <p class="para_th">Display</p>
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               <p class="para_td">As soon as the Display button is pressed a graphical representation of all the computed cut regions that would be machined under the operation's current settings is shown on the screen. This gives you visual assistance in assessing the accuracy of your machining strategy.</p>
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/06topic_32.html');return(false);">Autodetection Control</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Autodetection Control allows you to manipulate the Cut Region by altering the parameters which affect it.</p>
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               <p class="para_th">Update IPW</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Turning off the <b class="uiTerm">Update IPW</b> option lets you generate an operation creating the corresponding tool path but leaving the in-process workpiece unchanged. Turn off <b class="uiTerm">Update IPW</b> to create mirrored cycles for simultaneous roughing with multiple tools (merging lathes) that you can then fine-tune in the Synchronization Manager.
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turning_turn_eng_ret_roughing.html');return(false);">Engage/Retract Settings</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">The Engage/Retract Settings determine how the tool will approach and leave the workpiece.</p>
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turn_mp_cut_rough.html');return(false);">Cutting</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Cutting delivers control for a multitude of settings that are common to the cutting operation subtypes.</p>
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turn_mp_profiling.html');return(false);">Profiling</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">The profiling option performs a cleanup of the part surface after multiple rough cuts have been made.</p>
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turn_mp_corner1.html');return(false);">Corner</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">The Corner Control dialog allows the specification of the system's behavior for cutting at convex corners while performing profiling cuts.</p>
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turn_mp_stock1.html');return(false);">Stock</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">The term Stock is used to describe the material that will be left on the in-process workpiece after an operation is complete. The options for Stock vary according to cut method.</p>
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turn_mp_feed_rates.html');return(false);">Feed Rates</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Sets the rate at which the tool advances. You can inherit the value of the feed parameters from the <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turn_method.html');return(false);">Method group</a>.
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               <p class="para_td">Set <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/06topic_68.html');return(false);">Speeds</a> on the Feed Rate dialog.
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turn_mp_machine.html');return(false);">Machine</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">The Machine Control Subdialog allows you to enter output commands such as Startup and End-of-Path commands, as well as Adjust and CUTCOM register information.</p>
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turn_geom_avoid.html');return(false);">Avoidance</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Avoidance Geometry allows you to specify, activate (or cancel) geometry that is used for non-cutting moves before or after a tool path.</p>
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               <p class="para_th"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgturning/turn_mp_local_return_ov.html');return(false);">Local Return</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Local Return allows you to define a location to which the tool moves, at a user-specified frequency, where you may specify the output of OPSTOP, OPSKIP, or DELAY statements to the tool path.</p>
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               <p class="para_th">Tool Path Action / Tool Path Parameters</p>
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               <p class="para_td">For more information on these functions please see Manufacturing General &rarr; Common Options &rarr; Tool Path.</p>
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