5D Roughing waterline
Application area:
Specialized processing for pockets with curved bottoms, based on the Waterline operation.
Job assignment:
Floor surfaces. Control surface. Typically defined by the pocket bottom.
Job Zone curve. Job zones are used to define the part areas that have to be machined by roughing and finishing milling operations. In this operation, only a closed work zone is applicable. See more
Properties. Displays the properties of an element. It is possible to add the stock. You can also call this menu by double clicking on an item in the list.
Delete. Removes an item from the list.
Strategy:
Strategy.
This parameter allows the user to achieve a toolpath that appears adaptive or equidistant when performing pocketing operations. This parameter group works similarly to the Waterline roughing operation. See more
Machining levels.
It defines the range along tool axis for the machining.
Auto top level. If the flag is set, the upper level is automatically calculated based on the blank.
Some parameter group works similarly to the Waterline roughing operation. See more
Face side.
Determines the machining direction from the bottom surface of the pocket.
Front. The tool can only process from the side with the positive direction of the surface normal vector.
Back. The tool can only perform processing from the side opposite to the surface normal vector.
Depth Step.
Material removed in one pass along the tool axis between the Top and Bottom levels.
Milling type.
Сan be assigned in almost all operations, except for the curve machining operations. This allows the user to control the required milling type (climb or conventional) during the toolpath calculation process. This parameter group works similarly to the Waterline roughing operation. See more
Transformations:
Parameter's kit of operation, which allow to execute converting of coordinates for calculated within operation the trajectory of the tool. See more