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The boundary may overlap the stock but It's not accounting for the tool radius.
Like said, open the boundary or rough with dynamic.
Or old school pocket from outside In
On our newer feelers that have the 31 I believe, when you are in dnc mode you can device change to the card and from the directory set dnc soft key and run from the card. It is not run as a sub program. You can block search like you would in a cnc memory program.
yes then it will enter from the left and right. it may do some ramping still but it will do what it can from the outside on left and right.
you can put it on center containment option too.
the rest milling will prevent it from machining the whole boundary
you can manipulate where is starts with the containment boundary.
you may need to make a stick model and use rest machining making an entry area in your travel limit
You could make a sub program and program the feature incremental.
But you can adjust to go by operation type and order. You would need one for each tool that has multiple ops to use the minimum tool changes and prevent feature jumping
personally i don't like negative depth facing. if the next time the stock is different it could wipe the jaw out or make the part ull. I would set off the bottom and start with the shortest piece
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