Custom Surface Clearance for Pocketing

This feature allows you to select a custom surface as a clearance area to optimize linking motion, offering added control over the position of the tool during linking moves. Mastercam aligns all retracts and pending linking motions to the defined surface.

This feature, which supports cylinder, sphere, plane and irregular surfaces, is located on the Linking page in the Clearance area group box. You can use it only for the roughing machining pattern with 3- and 5-axis output format types.