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2 1/2 axis Milling

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Profiling

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Pocketing

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Facing

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Drilling

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Engraving

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V-carving

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3 axis Milling

Z-level Pocketing

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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

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 Facing

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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 Project curves (Engraving)

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Simultaneous 4-axis Between two curves

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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

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

Box work piece

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Region Curves

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Tool path Clipping planes

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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 

Transform and copy as ordinary Rhino curves

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Simulation

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

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

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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