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92Select the feature Letter Milling by clicking the CNC-Calc menu, then Millng Operations,Mill Letters, or select the corresponding icon from the Milling Operations toolbar.The dialog Letter Milling will appear on the left side of the screen as shown above.Further, you should also click on the Parameters button todefine e.g. retract height over the part surface. For thisexample we chose a 2 mm. retract height, see on the right.Besides Retract Height you can choose if retracts should becarried out in rapid or feed mode. Once finished click OKto close the Parameters dialog..
93Now use window selection to select the text you want to mill. On the drawing left-click onecorner, hold down the mouse button and drag diagonally. When the desired text is framed,release the button. The frame disappears and the text will have turned yellow to indicate thatit has been selected.Next click on the Export Editor button, and this will show the NC codes for machining thetext in the Editor.To verify the generated toolpath we mustsimulate it using the integrated GraphicalBackplot. To open the backplot window clickon Backplot in the menu and then onBackplot Window as shown below.At the bottom right of the backplot window,start the simulation by clicking Start/StopSimulation indicated by the icon .Simulation speed and direction is infinitelyvariable both forwards and backwards. This iscontrolled by dragging the slider either to theleft or to the right where right is forward.
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