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See also: Close Open Pockets in the Flat Land Finishing Cycle
The Flat Land Finishing command is used to finish machine the flat areas (normal to the tool axis) on solids and surface parts, primarily using endmill or bull nose cutters. This cycle is ideally suited to prismatic parts that are typically multilevel with many flat land regions.
As the cycle is not designed to detect shallow areas the flat lands must be perfectly flat.
The cycle automatically detects the flat areas on the model and applies one of three strategies, concentric, lace and finish pass only.
The cycle offers standard offset control with an additional stand off distance. You can either specify a three-dimensional toolpath offset from the surface and/or an XY stand off distance.
The Finish Pass strategy is used to finish off the component walls. The cycle will cut by region, using nearest next calculation. The default approach move into each region is horizontal. Please note that the cycle does not support a cut increment as it is intended as a finishing cycle.
"Rest machining" allows you to machine rest material areas that have been left by a larger tool in a previous machining cycle (not limited to Flat Land Finishing, previous cycle may have been Roughing or Parallel Lace for example).