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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">The benefits of using Contour Profile:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">You can machine complex pockets whose walls may be canted (open and closed angles), curved, and have irregular shapes at the top (rib tops). </p>
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            <p class="para_item">You can create or edit the tool path quickly and easily. </p>
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            <p class="para_item">You are more productive because you spend less time selecting geometry and controlling the tool axis. </p>
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            <p class="para_item">You aren't restricted by trimmed or non-trimmed geometry, or by how they are connected when defining the floor and wall. </p>
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            <p class="para_item">You can use multiple passes on the floor and the walls to semi-finish and finish a part in the same operation. </p>
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            <p class="para_item">You can produce tool paths for floor and no-floor based regions. </p>
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            <p class="para_item">You can produce tool paths for multiple non-contiguous regions with one operation.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">You can modify the starting and ending locations of a tool path. You can also overlap the tool path for closed regions.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The software provides tools for reviewing the floor and wall regions for their validity before generating the tool path. &nbsp;</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Gouge-checking and collision-detection are provided. Collision-detection against the non-cutting region of a cutter (above shank) and tool holder are supported.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Standard surface contouring <b class="uiTerm">Non-Cutting</b> moves are supported to approach, depart, and transition within the regions to be cut. 
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            <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Contour Profile</b> is designed to machine walls with the side of the cutter so it can produce the best results for the semi-finishing and finishing of ruled surface walls. Because <b class="uiTerm">Contour Profile</b> does not restrict the walls to be ruled surfaces, it can be useful in producing semi-roughing tool paths even for free-formed walls. 
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