On some of the finishing strategies, HSMWorks supports Axial Offset Passes.
Axial offset passes work much like multiple finishing stepdowns in the 2D operations and is useful for removing a fixed amount of stock in several passes. If you, for example, have 1mm of stock left you can remove this in 5 passes of 0.2mm using parallel finishing:
Axial offset passes parameters
No offset passes |
3 offset passes |