On 24 July 2018 at 21:02, Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb.kuzmin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think "rest machining" refers to doing initial machining passes with
> a large-diameter cutter, having the CAM keep track of the remaining
> material that needs to be removed, and then doing finishing passes
> with a smaller-diameter cutter to remove that remaining material.

More generally it is using the stock remaining from the previous
operations as the input to the current operation.


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