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2D CONTOUR with roughing passes (both ways) does not climb mill on finish passes even with compensation set to "left"

So its kind of weird that nobody else has really said much about this, and that autodesk hasn't noticed and fixed something that's obviously not right.  But when you go to machine an open pocket with a 2d contour, roughing passes enabled and both ways enabled, the final passes which actually cuts the part seems to be completely random. There is an option to select "left" sideways compensation. so why would it not calculate the offset roughing passes from your climb milled finish passes working outwards?  ive attached some screenshots. Notice one pocket has a climb mill finish pass and one a conventional. and I know you are probably thinking to try pocket instead of contour but it actually does the same exact thing... There should be an option to force climb or conventional mill on final passes. there are ways to work around this , like leaving stock and then duplicating and just adding your finish passes, but that shouldn't be the case.

Has this been annoying anyone else or im a just a weirdo?? 

 

Thanks,

Jeff