Surfacing with a 24mm surfacing bit

[MikeyH (Mike Hembrey)]

There is another thread about the cutter not on the line when Surfacing.

Maybe they should be merged @JohnJohn ?

Surfacing Tool Path, Expected behavior

I was doing an epoxy and wood project and needed to surface off the epoxy so I created a square and setup a surfacing operation to clean off the epoxy. What I didn’t notice is that the surface job went a full bits with outside of the square I had defined for the operations, the bit was a 25mm surfacing bit. Is this expected? Below I have setup two operations, a Pocket at a 4mm depth with a 1/4” endmill, then I setup a surface operation with a 1mm depth using a 1” surfacing bit. You can see t…