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  1. For sure, I like using 180 degree flat bottom drills for pre-drilling pockets, especially in titanium and steel. They have about a .045" point to flat distance which is very quick to helix out. Typically I will do a helix bore after the drill operation, stock model, then dynamic or optirough, give more control to reduce the amount of entry motion. IIRC you can get optirough to do it for you without much dinking around, but have certainly had trouble making it as optimized as I wanted it.
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  2. Kennametal has HARVI™ III UJDE endmills with those lengths, in stock. 1.25" Dia, 6" flute length, 6 flute, 9" OAL many radius options They can be pricy, but they have never let me down, and I can't say that I have always had a fair shot for them to succeed. Regardless of what tool you end up buying, for that length, even for finishing you had better have a lot of machine and workholding behind it to run it if you plan to take that all in one depth. That's a lot of contact points!
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  3. I didn't see one, however, a good portion of our tank extends beyond the machine, with just sheetmetal top, so it could easily be cut for another.
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  4. Yes you can on a Fanuc. It is well documented in the IF statement section of the fanuc 31i manual. Just keep in mind you need to nest the brackets. WHILE[[#1EQ0]OR[#2EQ1]] blah blah blah Also, if this isn't possible on other controls you can always process the or logic statement previously and bring in using a single variable test.
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  5. Yo, For a long time now I have seen this bug that didn't used to be there. It's not a huge deal but I use hot keys and the built in shortcuts a lot. In this example I am using the "Line Endpoints" like I do 400 times a day. As many know once you are in the line endpoints window you can switch between freeform, vertical, horizontal by hitting the corresponding letters F,V,H. Well with 2021 when I ( not sure if it's just me ) launch the line endpoints and hit " V " I get vertical as expected but when I then hit "F" still in the same session of line endpoints, it won't switch over to freeform. I have to hit V again and then F but then I can't draw because it won't let me click anywhere. It gets confused somewhere. I have to close the window and launch again and hit F first if I want freeform. With that said I can use my mouse and click on the Freeform Vertical and horizontal buttons and it works fine. Just the shortcuts are glitchy. Can you try this on your setup and see if you get the same thing? Also if this has been covered then sorry for the redundancy. Thanks for tuning in
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