To break at midpoint Trim/break, Select "Point" from the left buttons. Then "Break" from the two buttons on the right. When you move the crosshairs near the midpoint of the entity it will put a box there. Click the box. I forget how to do "At length" Hope this helps. Happy clicking! Bill @ N.C. Manufacturing

Thats in Smartcam. But hey I'm trying to block that part out of my mind. To much Mastercam stuff to remember to worry about an older obsolete system. Smartcam was a great improvement over paper and pencil 2D but it still left allot to be desired, compared with the stuff that's out today. Bill @ North Carolina Manufacturing

I know It doesn't usually work out like this ,but "Try to do it right the first time"! Bill @ North Carolina Manufacturing

I'd problly just delete the old toolpath and rechain / regroup and recode. It shouldn't take but a few seconds. Keep it as simple as you can. Bill @ North Carolina Manufacturing

I used Smartcam for a few years! Then I moved on to newer and better things = Mastercam! The only time I open it now is to View some Very old job files, and we have alot of old files. Used SC from about 1995 till just before MC X came out. Haven't used Smartcam in a couple of months now. Haven't needed to! Switched to Mastercam coldturkey and haven't regretted it one minute! I'm still a noob with Mastercam but i'm tryin to learn more every opertunity I get. Thats why I'm here now...... Damn my spellins turible! Bill @ North Carolina Manufacturing

Our old Sodick will do taper with verry little manual edit(Thanks to the great Post). Forget about 4 axis on this machine. mau757

I just use Mill for the wire. Tell it to use a .010 dia. endmill 7" long. Jimmy at Barefoot CNC came up with a super post for our old Sodick. Good luck Bill @ North Carolina Manufacturing

I havent waited nearly as long as the rest of you guys, so, I can wait longer. We got Mcam in Jan.05. I'm trying to use it to replace Smartcam. It's a slow process but, I KNOW it will be worth it. Bill

1 old Haas VF1 1 old Haas VF2 1 Haas VF3 1 Haas VF3 w/pallet changer 1 Mori Seiki SL25 1 Mori Seiki SL154Y w/live tooling 1 Fortune VT26 1 Fortune TNS1A 1 Hitichi Seiki (needs to be turned into an artifical reef) 1 Sodick wire edm 2 programmers - 1 for VMC's, 1 for the wire and lathes.