unneeded retreats?

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herbk
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unneeded retreats?

Post by herbk »

Hi,
on some operations (pocket and contour by face) is after each cutting round a tool retreat to a (more as) save hight.
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Is there any reason for that?
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Jakob Lundberg
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Re: unneeded retreats?

Post by Jakob Lundberg »

There is a "Keep Tool Down" option that should prevent that.
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Re: unneeded retreats?

Post by herbk »

its better with it, but there are still some retreads to much :)
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