I did a video on this a long time ago in x9, i tracked down the video on our dropbox here https://www.dropbox.com/s/2apkleeycuyxe3j/PlungeMilling.mp4?dl=0 there is other ways to plunge milling but the methods shown in the video above is my favorite way to use it. its not a very impressive video, was back from my earier days with making videos but should demo how to use it.

i posted how i do it recently here

I have been diving more and more into probing with mastercams producitivity plus lately on our Haas Vf2 with next gen controller and its working great, its really easy to use. Here is how you use mastercam producitivity+ to probe a y-axis web. https://fastechincorporated-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/joshc_fastechinc_net/EYRLO68typpPvXdPL9C3V78BmU7kEFVmHV8ZTbbJKwXzqw?e=t1F6WN there is so much you can do with Prod+ and probes in general, i have been doing a bunch of reporting (DPRNT) lately and that is fun/cool stuff. Another option is if you setup the Y-axis probing cycle on the machine through the controllers built in probing cycles you can output that data to a file or flash drive, then in mastercam you can use that cycle that you pulled from the machine controller by manually pasting the G-code into your mastercam file using the manual entry toolpath. Haas's Tip of the day youtube channel has a video on how to do this and a few other very good probing videos so if you have not watched the haas tip of the day videos on probing i would suggest starting there.

I added this to one of my posts in this section psub_call_trans #Translate level calls from toolchange, user I run internal subs so in my case it works YMMV result = nwadrs(strh, main_prg_no$) #altered to get H output, 03/22/2017 main_prg_no$ = main_prg_no$ + 40000 #alter to push subprograms #'s into the 40000 range All of my programs have 40000 subs but as they are internal to the program, it doesn't matter that all programs have the same range

The Haas I owned in the 90's didn't have through spindle coolant The headstock was hollow with the spindle cartridge running through the middle of it. The flood coolant flowed through the head stock, cooling the spindle cartridge. The down side to this was if you were running something that didn't need coolant the spindle would overheat because coolant wasn't flowing through the headstock. If your machine spindle is cooled the same way it might help to plumb a line to the coolant tank and cycle coolant through the head stock all the time