# Ease down only applies to very beginning of operation **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [November 11, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.grid.space/t/ease-down-only-applies-to-very-beginning-of-operation/2816 "2025-11-11T17:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MarblemanQ](https://forum.grid.space/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@MarblemanQ](https://forum.grid.space/u/MarblemanQ)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.grid.space/t/ease-down-only-applies-to-very-beginning-of-operation/2816/1 "2025-11-11T17:42:37Z")
Today I gave KM another try for an aluminum job to see if I can prevent any plunging meanwhile using helical operation and ease down. The answer is “almost”… Ease down does a great job inside the material but unfortunately it is not applied every time the tool enters the material. This is the part: ![image](https://forum.grid.space/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c715521b484418040b29c7726012c48e098cfccd.png) Doing a rough operation: At the far end, ease down is doing well but on the near end the tool plunges into the material. ![image](https://forum.grid.space/uploads/default/original/2X/5/581ad1ec58c8186e9c763568d89056dc8fc34bc9.png) This is similar with outline operation: Here we see a plunge first and then a nice ease down for the lower second part and inside the material: ![image](https://forum.grid.space/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d89184d3b43882bd9a6dd295884c304908cac5d3.png) ---
**Author:** ![stewart](https://forum.grid.space/user_avatar/forum.grid.space/stewart/32/21_2.png) [@stewart](https://forum.grid.space/u/stewart)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.grid.space/t/ease-down-only-applies-to-very-beginning-of-operation/2816/2 "2025-11-11T18:18:05Z")
this is a known issue on my short list to resolve. but it requires a lot of refactoring.