I am very grateful to the members who contribute as well as some big time contributors who are no longer hitting the forum. These gentelmen, Colin Gilchrist, James Meyette and Tim Markoski helped me more than they could know! I appreciate it!

Do your parts require a Horizontal machine? Would a Vertical Machine meet your needs? Horizontal MT for certain machines is more mature than others. Vertical machines are not MT driven yet and require the old school MP post driving them. Every machine has its own strengths and weakness and not something I can go into on a forum since I have relationships with every MTB you have listed. End of the day a good CAV would be what I would use with any CAM system.

When I had to do some Hori Grammin, I took my proven VMC (TOP/TOP) post, and spoke nicely with my reseller, and we copied/converted/created a Hori post that was TOP/TOP. Easy peasy lemon squeazy Yes, you have to create your planes (whereas TOP/FRONT outputs angles automagically), but, View Sheets makes it a doddle, and you then keep VMC/HMC flexibility.

Did you create your planes for each hole and drive the tapping operation that way?

just hold shift down and drag the screen with the middle mouse wheel

For the old school swarf it's under the collision control- Distance above lower rail (use +/-). For the new "Swarf Milling" toolpath I believe it's under Multi Cuts and then set the tool shifts to constant and then enter a value in the "To" field. I's been a while since I used the newer swarf but I think that's what does it...Try it out

I probably would have murdered this laptop by now without the help I get here . So Ya! me too!!! thank you all.

I've been helped here so many times, the very least I can do it give back when possible.

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Nevermind, got it. First time without my Spacemouse and I almost went into a panic!! lol

Have you tried yelling at them?