Howdy It's going OK...been out of pocket for a while. Thanks man... Ya....been real busy...

I have good experience with Mitsubishi, and if I needed to buy some that's what I'd get. You don't want to break a drill in a hole and have to think "if I had got the Mitsu…".

So I've started to buy YG Dream drills and I have to say I'm liking them so far! I'm using them in a job shop environment so no crazy production numbers on them. I went with them because of pricing. Being a job shop I need many sizes so their pricing helps. Going from hss/cobalt drills to carbide has been amazing... they don't walk and has made drilling materials like ss a breeze...

busy is good

Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Kennametal and Mikron are my favorites and I'll use Harvey or Guhring in a pinch.

one more important point to add is the fact that you also need a good filtration system, 3 microns or better, coolant through the spindle drills often fail as a result of poor filtration when smaller chips make their way into the drill orifices. I'm mostly used Mitsubishi's MVS line because of their wide assortment of sizes and lengths.

The problem was the video card. Computer is a new windows 10 install. Windows did not recognize the Nvidia Video Card. Had to download Nvidia GeForce Experience. After download and running the software recognizes your video card and downloads the correct video driver.

Most posts have something akin to this already, look into the post... tool_info : 2 #Output tooltable information? #0 = Off - Do not output any tool comments or tooltable #1 = Tool comments only #2 = Tooltable in header - no tool comments at T/C #3 = Tooltable in header - with tool comments at T/C

Josh is correct. How's it going Morlin!?

Howdy stranger!

themes are under File --> options then on the Options page. I think in an early beta there was a number you entered somewhere for the themes but thats a thing of the past and now its selected inside mastercam under file --> options and then on the options page, same place where the large icons check box is located.

I've always found that you get what you pay for. Every single Tool Salesman wants to sell you "their tools", and will work every angle to get their tools into your shop. I've always been a fan of pitting the Salesmen against each-other, whenever possible. In this way, you can often find the best performance-for-dollar ratio. I generally use: Mitsubishi, OSG, Walter-Titex, Kennametal, Iscar, Mikron, and Sandvik for Coolant-Through Drills. My thoughts being this: What is the Tool Life (Holes Drilled) versus Drill Cost? This gives you the "Dollars/Cents per Hole". Is there an option for Re-Grind and/or Re-Coat after grinding? Often the right coating might give you 2X-10X the number of holes. If that is the case, it can be more cost effective sometimes to just "buy the right tool", and "get all the use you can out of it", before replacing it with a brand-new "fresh" tool. I've seen re-grinds that won't run at 100% feed rate, so the operator ends up turning down the Feed Override knob to 50%. This just means each hole now takes twice as long to drill as they should, and you aren't making the same production rate with those re-grinds, as you would with a fresh drill. I have not used drills from either company you mentioned, but I would recommend you do a head-to-head comparison between the tool companies, if possible. Don't tell them that they are competing, as the first thing they will want to know is what their competitor is doing. See how many holes can be drilled, what the salesman recommends for speeds/feeds, and what kind of hole tolerance/quality you are getting from these tools. Ask for a Demo Tool, and do a fair comparison between the brands. Coolant pressure and flow-rate will have a big effect on how hard you can push both large and small drills. With small drills, you've got to get higher PSI, just to be able to get any chip blasting. This is due to the small coolant orifices. For the larger drills, they often have monstrously large coolant holes, and here you need a hi-pressure pump with enough flow-rate to maintain the hydraulic pressure inside the drilled hole, to flush the chips. This is where it really pays to get a good hi-pressure coolant pump system. One of the things I worry about with "cheaper" drills is the consistency of the orifice diameter (you want the same pressure drill-to-drill), and the quality of the tool grind. How good is their quality control? I don't want to setup a process where I'm expecting "500 holes per drill" based on testing, and then come to find out that some drills make it 600 holes, while others blow up after 380 holes. These numbers are all hypothetical in this example, but the principle still stands. It comes back to Quality Control standards.

Great idea! Maybe I should start charging people for the help that I give here at the forum.

Hi Murlin You've had on the cloaking device for a while ? And Newbeeee as for you Up a little Late I see Hope all is Well across the pond? day 1 of the Vacs on the old stomping grounds I see . Sorry for the detour guys . carry on