Facing
At a glance
- The first op on raw stock with zero picking—it already knows to cut the whole stock top
- Or switch to picked boundaries to face a region, with nested loops standing as islands
- Raster at any angle, zig-zag or one-way, stepover by percent or exact width
- Edge overhang runs the cutter past the boundary for a clean rim; or spiral it with the Dynamic strategy
Facing flattens the top of your stock — the first thing you do to raw material to get a clean, square reference surface. Add a Face operation and it already knows what to cut: the whole stock top, straight from the setup's stock block. Set the depth (it defaults to facing down to the model top) and click OK — no boundaries to trace.
Face the whole top, or just a region
Leave it on stock top for the classic skim, or switch to picked boundaries to face just a region, with nested loops standing as islands exactly like Pocket.
Raster like a machinist
Clean parallel passes at any angle, zig-zag back-and-forth or one-way cutting, and a stepover you set by percent of tool diameter or an exact width — the two stay linked. Where the pass has to hop an island it lifts, clears, and re-enters; everywhere else it stays down and keeps cutting.
Overhang, spiral & skim
An edge overhang lets the tool run past the boundary so the rim comes out as clean as the middle — set it to half the tool and the cutter centers on the very edge. Prefer a continuous path? Switch the strategy to Dynamic and the same high-speed engine as 2D Dynamic faces the region in one spiral. Face in multiple depth passes, keep a skim allowance with axial stock to leave, or take a zero-depth pass to just kiss the surface.