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Good afternoon Engineguy,
I should mention, I'm not a machinist and I'm trying to learn as much as I can about this world of CAD/CAM with Fusion 360, I've been at it for about a year now and the learning curve has been rather steep.
I do appreciate the "clarification" but I must explain what I mean when I say it is not "intuitive" by its nature and here's why I say that. I do understand that Trace is by definition a tool path that traces a contour with varying z, but in the description, while it does mention right and left compensation it is not clear what that means. So, in the "Passes" when it mentions left or right compensation, it does so in the context of climb vs conventional milling and only only vaguely mentions the tool being offset from the centerline, couple that up with the option of choosing either single contours or multiple contours, having a left or right comp may in fact not give the correct tool path. In my case, I chose the "bottom" contour line vs the top contour line and regardless of the amount of stock to leave, the tool path would either give me a warning that the stock to leave was incorrect or it was clearly cutting into the model beyond the contour of the feature I was attempting to machine. Anyway, all that aside, I am grateful and thankful for your help.
Fusion