When you are using an adaptive clear to cut out a pocket of material, don’t have the tool enter the stock by spiraling down. Instead, first do a drilling operation with a drill size larger than your adaptive clearing tool size. Then in the adaptive settings, select that hole as the “pre-drilled entry position” so the tool can drop in and then use side milling instead of spiraling down as its cutting.
Spot drill depth do 20 or 30 thou. I did 50 thou and Rick said he’d do less than that.
For drilling holes with a relatively large depth (over 0.75” deep) use the deep drilling full retract option. You can run drilling feeds and speeds with whatever HSM works defaults to but drill sizes over 3/8” probably should be run at like 60% feed rate on the dial when you’re doing it IRL.
Always include some stock to leave on top of a part when using an adaptive clear so you can follow up with a face operation. HSM works adaptive clear ops sometimes leave behind little ridges about 10 thou thick in certain areas which can either be filed down or taken off with a face op.