Basic

Application area:

The Basic group contains face milling, waterline and plane machining, contouring, and flat-area finishing operations. These topics describe the common milling strategies and their operation settings.

Operations:

• Face milling. Machines planar faces. Details

• Roughing waterline. Removes stock in horizontal layers. Details

• Finishing waterline. Finishes surfaces using waterline passes. Details

• Roughing plane. Removes stock using plane passes. Details

• 2.5D contouring. Machines contours at different levels. Details

• Flat land. Finishes flat areas of the model. Details

• 3D contouring. Machines spatial curves. Details