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Frank Caudillo
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I use it on practically every ID path for any turning work.  For milling, it is an additional, initial point to rapid the tool to before or after a tool path.  So if you have to rapid to a certain Z then down, it allows you to set clearance and such deeper but have a higher Z.  XY points as well.  It's pretty handy.

Play with it some, it'll click when you look at the display and then posted code will show you how it outputs from your post.

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I just recently used it on a series of stacked counter bores. I set my initial Z-height to a clearance height above the part then I milled the deepest one first. At the end of that operation I set my retract height to the bottom of the next counter bore and finished that one, and then repeated the process for the last. These were all roughed out, so I didn't just plunge into the deepest counter bore first. It was nice because the tool didn't have to come all the way out to the typical retract height and back in.

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