Click
next to the Surface text box in
the Retract group box, located on the General
tabbed page of the Operation Setup dialog box, or
click Retract on the SEQ SETUP
menu.
Click
next to the Surface text box in
the Retract group box, located on the General
tabbed page of the Operation Setup dialog box, or
click Retract on the SEQ SETUP
menu.
The Retract Selection dialog box opens.
Select the Surface option and click one of the following:
Select—Select a datum plane, a planar or revolved surface feature, or a planar surface on the model.
Create Surface—Create a revolved surface feature. This option is not available in 3-axis workcells or for 3-axis NC sequences. You do not have to use Revolve to create the surface, as long as the resulting surface is a surface of revolution; for example, you can use Extrude and create a cylinder.
Along Z Axis—Create a datum plane normal to the Z-axis of either the Machine coordinate system or the NC sequence coordinate system (depending on whether you define retract at the operation level or the NC sequence level), by specifying an offset along this axis. Type the offset value in the Enter Z Depth text box.
Note:
You can click 
on the Datum Features
toolbar to create a plane at runtime and use the plane as the datum plane
for the operation.
The Preview button lets you display the retract surface prior to finalizing the setup. Click OK to create the retract surface or Cancel to quit.
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