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It will not help with the milling, but right click in the ops manager - Turning stock preview - hit the little arrows in the upper left to expand the window - select save geo - solids - choose the boundaries you want to get solids from and green check. Now you have a solid of the lathe stock....
The stock flip of a stock model being mirrored is a known issue.
You can get around this by using 2 stock models - 1 to get the stock to the point just before flipping the stock, and the 2nd to flip the stock. Do not include the stock flip op in the 2nd stock model, just use a custom plane to control the flip.
Are you adjusting the feedrate for the tight arc motion? When swinging a tight arc, the OD of the tool is feeding around the arc at a much higher speed than the center of the tool. You may have programmed .0008" FPT, but swinging a really small arc will cause the OD of the tool to experience a much higher FPT (maybe up to .002"!!!)
If all your ops are set to TOP wcs, right click in the ops manager, display options, shut everything off except the WCS;
Anything other than TOP will jump out at you.
My kids tell me the voice on this one is better;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXz6lOXkUTk
Also wanted to add we have a bunch of tool locator libraries on the Tech Exchange;
https://community.mastercam.com/techexchange#files
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