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johnswetz1982
in reply to: calexpavel

One of the ideas behind Adaptive is that it uses the entire or close to the entire flute length of the tool. You want to use the full length because you paid for it and if you only take shallow cuts you wear the bottom of the flutes dull while the top of the flutes are still sharp. Secondly the Adaptive toolpaths use "trichordal milling" where the radial engagement and the angle of engagement are constantly changing so the there is an even and constant pressure/load on the side of the tool. Third, since you are taking a shallow radial cut you can increase you federate so that you actually end up removing more material than a bunch of offset passes with bigger radial engagement but smaller axial engagement. In the Pocketing tool path (I think, I don't use it often) will take offset cuts where the tool load will sharply change at entry/exit/and corners. Not much of a problem in wood or styrofoam but bad in metal. I think the morph option makes it more of a trichordal path but I dont know. The last tip is to not use tool orientation unless you are doing multi axis work. It is not needed.