Hello all i have a question to ask the ones that have been doing this stuff prolly before i was born. With 5th axis pockets, i'm used to roughing out the pockets with 3 axis toolpaths and then using the 5th axis toolpath to just clean up the pocket to give it the 3 degree or so tilt. Is there a way to cut pockets out using just 5th axis and the pocket comes out good? I have experimented with the multipass option with 5th axis swarf and sometime the pocket comes out decent and sometimes it would leave me with some clean up. I'm currently using mastercam x4, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Blake

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