I still remember standing inside that machine tool (leaning on the fixture at the time), while I had you on the phone, talking me through the data acquisition from the probe. Good times

Have a look at this video... https://blog.caminstructor.com/mastercam-cutter-compensation

Waterline could zigzag it, but you can climb. I set the Steep Shallow to -.25(-.37) from the top edge and -.25(-1.62512) from the bottom edge and got a very nice looking toolpath. I got top down not bottom up. I cannot get Flowline to do what you need with those tolerances. I would just use Waterline with the steep shallow like I have it and call it a day. Thank you for sharing the file helped me to figure out the best way to help you.

In IKE we have swt_cool_format for single line and multi-line coolant output. We have this all rigged up through the X-Style/canned text coolant. I've never had much luck with any customization on the V9 coolant style. I think the X-style/canned text would be your best bet.

We have six verticals and one horizontal and I've been the only programmer at this shop for 20 years. Over half of our work load is new jobs and a lot of those are one off parts so there is a constant stream of programming going through here. I don't know what type of work you do or what the quantities are, but if I were a shop owner with 9 mills, unless we were running all molds or prototype work, I couldn't justify 7 seats of Mastercam and 7 programmers. That sounds like a strange precarious environment. I'm surprised that nobody at the shop you work for has taught you how to use tool offsets? I'd love to be a fly on the wall in that shop for a few weeks. Good luck to you. You're getting some good advise in here.

Surface or Solid model? On Flowline have you changed any of the advanced settings? Have you tried waterline? Can you share a Z2G so others can review the file?

Good to hear... the understanding bit at least..:)

Sounds like you are going to have to do some trial and error with A test block.

Indeed Mike, indeed.

Thanks for all the replies. Lots of great advice. I am going to keep learning as much as i can, including tool offsets because I feel those will be very helpful as far as rerunning programs. I also talked to my boss about programming parts ahead of time on my own time, for pay, I don't see our shop being able to only have one programmer, but if I program parts ahead of time, outside of shop hours, that should cut down time during shop hours.

The boss is always "looking" at ways to become more productive but it takes more than "looking" to totally rewrite the culture of a shop. Ask him how committed he is to making things "better." Ask him how much money he is wiling to spend to make things "better." A few cleverly worded questions can sus out how serious they are about change. This 5 minute conversation can save you alot of headache and wasted time. Its all too common to get someone like yourself who is striving to make everything and everyone better, only to be smashed down by management who don't fully support the direction you want to take things. They will give you alot of surface level fluff but when the time comes to commit to change they back down like panzies. Good luck. Lots of great ideas in this thread!

IF you have 7 programmers doing that type of work, the shop is hemorrhaging money. You dont need more than 1 programmer for that type of work. It does, however, depend on the experience of the programmers

If you're going to spend in the ballpark of $350k on a mill, you can afford to build an airconditioned room around it.

Never mind, I found where it was set to run as admin

i agree, mostly because if someone doesn't know how to do anything on a haas machine, a very simple youtube or google search will yield a ton of info on how to do whatever it might be, and haas's Tip of the day videos are amazing to say the least and with watching a short tip of the day vid from mark terryberry you can learn how to do whatever you might need. Sure you can find videos on other machines, but the info is just so readily available for anything that you might want to do with haas machines. these are all just opinions and to each their own but thats why i think haas machines are great startup machines is because they are easy to learn, easy to use and easy to find information on whatever you want to do.

I am about to make some people fall of their chairs... Haas....great startup machines...in a few years after you hopefully establish yourself, look to upgrade.

Agree 1000%... That goes for anything, Machine tools, software, cutting tools, workholding blah blah blah. Having experienced absolute !@#$% support, I make the effort to go the distance because I know what it is like as an end user needing to get something sorted quickly. And machine tool support is paramount. I even provided support to a company the other day, new to the CNC game. They were using Fusion, and couldn't get the right code. Turned up on site, put together a couple of test programmes, found the root cause of the issue (actually two, one was the Fusion post, and the other was the machine tool/setup), gave him the information to give to both of his suppliers, so they could fix the issue. Now he is happy. Yep, do your research on support. Some of us are lucky that we can call on esteemed colleagues in the USA of course *cough* James *cough* LOL