I’m a bit confused here…. Mastercam is a great product but the post is locked up. So you purchased Esprit, which has the flaws you mentioned, and may need an expert Esprit programmer to drive it. Only when something doesn’t post properly, you will find that Esprit posts are just as locked up as Mastercam. If editable post are the concern, choose Partmaker. I can make a 13 axis, 3 channel control dance like Fred Astaire on meth.

Here is an example of an issue that isn't yet fixed and has given us a lot of grief. We were drilling a skewed hole on the NTX and the drill wasn't going to the correct position by about 1/2". We had other G68.1 issues in the past but we came up with quick fixes such as surface machining a skewed face instead of face milling it. The issue was the machine and Mastercam are set to diameter for both upper and lower turrets for milling AND turning but Mastercam was continuing to post in diameter coordinates during G68.1 plane rotation. When doing plane rotation the machine needs M-codes (M582) to put it in radius mode. Once those were hand edited in it worked flawlessly. Still waiting for the post fix however. M582 (radius mode) G49 G68.1 X0 Y0 Z0.... G69 M583 (diameter mode) Another annoying issue (not post related) is we were boring a large part with a lip on the ID of the front of the part (think 6" diameter coffee can with a 3" hole through the lid). We got the correct tool for this but it caused X-axis overtravel issues with the lower turret. We flipped the tool over 180 degrees about Z so the insert was facing upward and bored on the top of the bore. The problem is that Mastercam reversed the spindle direction and there was not way to fix it without creating a new incorrect tool definition of hand editing the posted code. In Mill there is a box where you can reverse the spindle from CW to CCW, the programmer has that control. I can run a right handed end mill backwards if I so desire, it is up to MEEEE! I can't thin of a reason I would want to do that but there might be a time where it will save my xxxx. In lathe it isn't even an option and it is extremely frustrating. Don't try to make the software too smart folks... You tie my hands behind my back.

Let me just add this machine ain't no Makino, not by a long shot... We have to work to hold .001"... On our Makinos we comp a tool, walk away, and hold .0001" all day long. We can hold .0005" (.7500" +0/ -.0005) on long cylindrical bores using a ramped toolpath with a lollypop mill and .0003" circularity. No can do on the Mori, I was spoiled.

2 thou drift on a fixed turret! WoW. I can understand thermals on a B holding a turning tool but turret? LMAO @ Zoob and his comparisons! IBTL

I can do that in my 2002 Haas.

Well, if you got the Okuma LIKE WE RECOMMEND, you'd have Dr gcode to fall back on.