The Mill Facing Wizard Feature Settings
Introduction
The second step of the Mill Facing Wizard is to define the Feature Parameters. These parameters define rapid movement and depth settings that are applied to all operations in the feature. All of the parameters found in the Feature dialog box are explained in this topic.
Feature
Material Approach
- Clearance Plane (Mill
Jobs) - displays the clearance plane value. In the CAM Tree, right-click
Machine Setup, and click Edit to set the clearance plane in the Machine
Setup dialog box. The clearance plane is incremental from the top
of stock (defined in the Stock Wizard). It defines the safe rapid
plane used between machining operations. The value you define in the
Machine Setup is applied to all features under that setup.
- For Mill Turn Jobs, view the Mill
Turn Clearance topic.
- Rapid Plane
- is the height at which the tool can rapid safely within a single
machining operation. This value is incremental from the Top of Feature
setting in the CAM wizard.
- Feed Plane
- is the height at which the tool movement changes from rapid to feedrate.
This value is incremental from the toolpath.
Feature Parameters
- Top of Feature
- is the top of the material for the feature. This value is incremental
from the Machine Setup or machining origin.
- Pick Top - enables selection mode for you to set the Top of Feature by selecting geometry.
- Total Depth - is the cutting
depth of the feature from the Top of Feature (as an absolute or positive
value). This value is applied to all operations in the feature.
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- Pick Bottom - enables selection mode for you to set the Total Depth by selecting geometry.
Geometry
- Keep Internal Loops
- With this check box cleared, any internal loops that are detected will be ignored.
- With this check box selected any internal loops that are detected will be utilized as feature geometry.
- Bounding Box
- With this check box cleared, the exact geometry detected will be passed utilized as feature geometry.
- With this check box selected, a bounding box will be created from the detected geometry and will be utilized as the feature geometry.
Next Topic
After setting the feature parameters, click Next>> to go to The Machining Strategy Dialog Box.