Can someone point me to a definition or a tutorial on what “Stock to leave” under Tool Path settings for 3D Roughing Toolpath is/means.
Thank you.
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is the thickness of wood between your roughing pass and the finish. 
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if you do roughing, you do not want to “perfectly” hit the design, since if there is any inaccuracy / deflection / slop / wiggle / … then that leaves a visual mark on the final product. Usually roughing is done with big bits at high speeds, so higher forces/etc
stock-to-leave is basically a bit of extra that is left behind (to be removed in the finishing pass) as a buffer against this.
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THIS!!! is what I needed to know, thank you. So for the finishing pass, Stock to leave should be 0 then.
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Exactly
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You can also choose to use a small “stock to leave” in some cases where you want to do some additional finishing, like sanding toolmarks, a final high grit sanding on a surface, and so forth. Depends on exactly what you’re rying to do, but my point is you don’t HAVE to do a finish pass at 0, and sometimes you specifically don’t want to.
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