The Mill Facing Wizard Feature Settings

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.
  
  
• • 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.