Top Bottom and Sides

Cycles: All Standard Cycles

This command enables to program fillet or chamfer on the pocket and/or island bottom and taper on the pocket and/or islands sides.

We can differentiate 2 cases:

If you are working on a solid, using the solid profiles: set 'Reading on solid' to Yes, in order to get the values of taper, fillet and chamfer directly on the solid model. In this case, the other values have not to be filled.
If you are working on 2D geometry, set 'Reading on solid' to No.

Click on the option you want, you can combine them and check your choice with the dynamic icons.

Top Options: 7 options are available for the top face of the pocket and its islands:
	Normal: no fillet nor chamfer
	Fillet: radius is programmed both on pocket and islands
	Pocket Fillet: radius is programmed only on top of the pocket
	Island Fillet: radius is programmed only on top of the island
	Chamfer: chamfer is programmed both on pocket and islands
	Pocket chamfer: chamfer is programmed only on top of the pocket
	Island chamfer: chamfer is programmed only on top of the island

Side Options: 4 options are available for the flanks of the pocket and its islands:
	Normal: no fillet nor chamfer.
	Taper: Taper is programmed both on pocket and islands.
	Tapered Pocket: Taper is programmed only on the pocket.
	Tapered Island: Taper is programmed only on the island.

Bottom Options: 7 options are available for the bottom of the pocket:
	Normal: no fillet nor chamfer
	Fillet: radius is programmed both on pocket and islands
	Pocket Fillet: radius is programmed only on the pocket bottom
	Island Fillet: radius is programmed only on the island bottom
	Chamfer: chamfer is programmed both on pocket and islands
	Pocket chamfer: chamfer is programmed only on the pocket bottom
	Island chamfer: chamfer is programmed only on the island bottom

According to the chosen options, some parameters are accessible or not, ready to be filled:

For Top and Bottom:

- Radius / Height: enter the radius value if Fillet is chosen, enter the chamfer height if chamfer is chosen.

- Chamfer angle: angle of the chamfer.

Note:

For a contouring cycle, you can define a negative radius value, in order to machine inverted fillet for a ‘slot’ with a Side and Face cutter.

- Scallop Value: value of the crest on the taper.

Angle Options (this option is not available for the Z repeat cycles):

when a taper is programmed, the angles can be machined in 2 different ways:

Round shape	Sharp angle