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Boring
about boring holes in a part. Now we've already done basic drilling and with a drilling operation you choose a drill bit, you choose the depth you want to drill to, and you choose the speed and feed, and you're pretty much ready to go. Now with boring, it's a little bit different. Right, so, there's three different options for boring. with exactly the diameter you set for that boring bar. So, it's a great way to get really nice holes. But there's a lot of work to set up a boring bar and get everything dialed in perfectly, so there are a few other options for creating pockets or helical bores. Let me show you how it works. So first thing I want to do is go over here to my Point and Circle Toolpaths. I'm going to go ahead and just choose a basic drilling operation and I'm going to choose this first hole right there. Click on okay. And notice I have Drill selected here. And come to here your Tool. I don't have a boring tool. So I need to go in and setup a boring tool which would be a…
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