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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Profile</div>
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      <p class="para_topic"><b class="uiTerm">Profile</b> creates a single or specified number of cutting passes to finish part walls. It can machine both open and closed regions.
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                  <p class="para_note_body">You can define a custom tool, such as a chamfering tool, for <b class="uiTerm">Profile</b> operations. See <b class="uiTerm">User Defined Mill Tool</b>.
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      <p class="para_topic">For machinable regions with closed shapes, the profile pass will be built and traversed in the same way as the Follow Part cut pattern.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">Small areas of the part geometry can be finished as illustrated below by defining blank geometry only in the area of the part you want to finish.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">You may create additional passes that allow the tool to step toward the part geometry to remove material along the wall in successive concentric cuts by specifying a value in the Additional Passes field.</p>
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                  <p class="para_warning_body">  CAUTION: Whenever the stepover is very large (stepover&gt;50% of the tool diameter, but &lt;100% of the tool diameter) some areas may not be cut between consecutive passes. For these areas, the processor will generate additional cleanup moves to remove the material.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">More than one Open region can be cut at a time. If the open regions are close enough that the cutter passes cross, the system will adjust the tool path. If an Open Shape and an Island are close, the cutter passes will be built outward from the Open Shape only and will be adjusted to not gouge the Island. If multiple Islands are close, the cutter passes will be built outward from the Islands and combined where they cross.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">If the first (last) segment of the boundary is a line or an arc, the first (last) segment of the tool path is normally a parallel line or concentric arc. In certain circumstances, however, the first (last) segment of the boundary will &quot;disappear&quot; from the tool path, in which case the first (last) segment of the tool path is &quot;parallel&quot; to the second (next to last) segment of the boundary.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">This happens, for example, when the first (last) segment of the boundary is a concave arc (one whose center lies on the same side of the arc as the tool) and the tool radius plus the side stock exceeds the arc radius.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body"> NOTE: The boundary used for profiling operations must not cross itself, because the material side of the boundary would be ambiguous.</p>
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