Retract

The image below shows a set of linked one way Hatch roughing passes along a flat horizontal surface.

The tool path starts from the Start hint point that is set at the Safety distance level. The rapid movements (shown in red) are performed at the Clearance level and above it. The tool moves along the green lines towards, away from, or along the surface, without cutting (link movements). The blue lines show the tool path when cutting is performed. The tool path finished in the end point located at the Safety distance level.

The Retract section enables you to define a number of parameters of the start and end of the tool path.

Start from home point/Return to home point

These options enable SolidCAM to start/finish the operation tool path in the specified home point. The XYZ boxes defines the location of this point.

If the tool path is subsequently split using the sister tooling operation, the home point settings are honoured for each piece of tool path.  

Clearance level

This field defines the plane where the rapid movements of the operation (between passes) will be performed. The Clearance level value can be set according to the Part clearance level or according to the automatically calculated Optimized clearance level.

Safety distance

This field defines the distance to the Upper level at which the tool will start moving at the Z feed rate you have entered for the tool. Movements from the Clearance level to this height are performed in rapid mode.