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2 1/2 axis Milling |
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Pocketing |
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Facing |
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Drilling |
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Engraving |
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3 axis Milling |
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Z-level Facing |
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Parallel Roughing |
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Z-level finishing (Water line finishing) |
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Planar finishing |
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Planar contour finishing |
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Pencil Tracing |
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Surface angle limit control (Steep or flat surface machining) |
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Along Curves (Engraving) |
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Project curves (Engraving) |
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Between two curves |
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From boundary curves |
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Roughing from 3D Stock Model |
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Re-roughing |
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Planar remachining |
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Contour remachining |
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V-carving |
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4 axis Milling |
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Indexed 3 + 1-axis (Including all madCAM toolpath functions) |
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Simultaneous 4-axis Profiling |
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Simultaneous 4-axis Pocketing |
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Simultaneous 4-axis Radial-level Pocketing |
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Simultaneous 4-axis Radial-level Facing |
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Simultaneous 4-axis Parallel Roughing |
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Simultaneous 4-axis Radial-level finishing |
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Simultaneous 4-axis Planar finishing |
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Simultaneous 4-axis Planar contour finishing |
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Simultaneous 4-axis Spiral finishing |
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Simultaneous 4-axis Pencil Tracing |
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Surface angle limit control (Steep or flat surface machining) |
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Simultaneous 4-axis Along Curves (Engraving) |
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Simultaneous 4-axis From boundary curves |
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Simultaneous 4-axis Roughing from 3D Stock Model |
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Simultaneous 4-axis Radial-level remachining |
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Simultaneous 4-axis Planar remachining |
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Simultaneous 4-axis Contour remachining |
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Simultaneous 4-axis V-carving |
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5 axis Milling |
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Indexed 3 + 2 axis (Including all madCAM toolpath functions) |
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Simultaneous 5 axis from axis of revolution (Including all madCAM toolpath functions except re-roughing) |
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Simultaneous 5-axis Drive Surface Offset-level Pocketing |
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Simultaneous 5-axis Drive Surface Offset-level Facing |
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Simultaneous 5-axis Drive Surface U-V Roughing |
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Simultaneous 5-axis Drive Surface Offset-level finishing |
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Simultaneous 5-axis Drive Surface U-V finishing |
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Simultaneous 5-axis Drive Surface border contour finishing |
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Simultaneous 5-axis Closed Drive Surface spiral finishing |
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Simultaneous 5-axis Drive Surface Pencil Tracing |
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Simultaneous 5-axis Drive Surface angle limit control |
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Simultaneous 5-axis SWARF Profiling from surface edge curves |
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Simultaneous 5-axis Profiling perpendicular to surface |
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Simultaneous 5-axis Part trimming from curves and vectors |
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Regions and Boundaries |
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Box work piece |
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Region Curves |
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User defined 3D stock models (Except simultaneous 5-axis drive surface) |
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Drive Surface calculation height and depth option |
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Regions from drive surface borders (trim curves) |
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Drive Surface tool path clipping levels option |
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Simultaneous 5-axis vertical angle limit option |
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Toolpath editing |
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Transform and copy as ordinary Rhino curves |
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Simulation |
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3-axis Material removal simulation |
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3-axis Tool holder collision simulation |
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4 axis machine parts simulation |
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5-axis machine parts simulation |
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Custom machine |
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4-axis machine setup |
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5-axis machine setup |
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Custom STL files support for machine parts simulation |
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External DLL support for machine kinematics |
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Custom machine |
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Customizable post processors |
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4-axis output |
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5-axis output |
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5-axis APT output |
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