If the wire radius compensation is carried out by the software, the appropriate compensation value and direction will be automatically used by the software to produce a wire path that is already corrected. The path cannot be altered by changing the offset register of the nc-machine. This may be necessary for example, when cutting a contour which contains elements or arcs which are smaller than the required compensation amount and thus cannot be cut using the machine registers
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The following parameters control the use of wire compensation in the software: