We use these functions extensively on 4x and 5x fanuc controlled machines. If you would like, PM me and we can set up a call and I can communicate some learnings. May be hard and time consuming for me (barely literate) to spell them out here. Mike

Just ran some unattended parts with some tight tolerance 5 axis features and used probing to make it all possible. The parts had a +/-.0005 Dia bore that had to be machined from both sides. Good ole haas love to heat up and move around so relying on just COR for this wasn't gonna work. I machined half of the bore from one side, spun it 180 and did a wash down on the bore with that tool. Grabbed the probe and then from this side reached through to the the bore I just did on the opposite side, set a Work offset for just this feature, checked the size and position(more for mixxxx/chips hitting the probe. Then came and machined the other side of the bore. At the end of the program I had the probe check the whole bore from one side for size and position. This worked great. Both sides were within .0002ish from side to side and only drifted .0001-.0002 in size throughout the 30 part run (verified with a cmm) In process probing IMHO is way underutilized compared to the overall payback. I'm probably going to check more features as an in-process check when running unattended now.

That sounds about right! Thank you aaron (and bob of course) That makes perfect sense. I may have to show my boss some of these posts lol and I'll be reading through that thread as well @Jake L I also saw your bump on the old g54.4 thread and there is a ton of great info in there

Do you have a link to that thread? Looks like you quoted a snippet from a post with other good information, would love to read the whole post and thread. Edit, found it: https://www.emastercam.com/forums/topic/103732-whats-everyone-using-for-tooling-management-as-in-inventory-usage-etc/page/2/#comment-1327457

after looking in to it more, its just a really basic post doing what it was intended to do (tool info, speed/feed and xyzabc info. CAMplete is doing exactly what it does by adding all of the correct formatting and engage / retracts.

You could get an APT to gcode post built. I've got an old V9 vintage one that I haven't used in 20 years and most post developers offer them. The problem is, almost every MTB that uses APT have their own personal flavor of APT. Building an edit free APT to gcode post would be a lot of work.

PM sent. Even if you were a creepy internet stranger, I'd still want to have a conversation. I enjoy learning, best way to do that is talk to guys with experience.

That thread I linked was an awesome (albeit lengthy) read, tons of great info in there related to ERP's and tool management software's. And as far as I've found that g54.4 thread is currently one of the best resources on the web, also well worth a read thru.

Take him up on it Jake...a good with a lot of knowledge he's willing to share... I had a good conversation with him prior to us purchasing Vericut

We have parts where if the dovetail isn't torqued it affects the flatness of datums

I'll steal Bob's thunder, by simply quoting previous Bob wisdom. Here's a thread where he replied to me a few years ago: How I would interpret that is if you can't get your manager onboard with processes and procedures, you basically have no shot at true stress-free success. All you can do is document everything, have meetings, make sure everyone from the owners down (say they're) on the same page, then pray

It may not be an exact parallel as I use VarcoReports and I don't know if Jim does any special tricks, but I think it's just a screenshot taken, so you can just thicken up the Advanced Toolpath Display for when it grabs the screenshot:

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