Ken's right and besides--Most people who aren't on this forum talk fairly regularly with their resellers and tell them what they hate and like. (My reseller is probably tired of my opinions.) But a lot of those resellers are on this forum too. How many people actually return postcard surveys? I'm not sure if I ever have.

I was wondering that too.

in control definitions go to machine cycles and tell it to return to intial height

quote: Bug-free??? You have to be kidding. Hey I was just trying to stay on Cnc software's good side.......in case.... there's.. bugs

I know what your saying Jeff, But I think I'd almost rather see them be a month or two late if that's what it takes to be bug free.

chris, Man, that one always got under my skin too. Sure hope it never gets like that with mastercam. The one thing I've always like about mastercam since version 3 is a streamlined approach to getting a toolpath to the CNC. Even back in the day when you had one shot straight through a set of parameters with no way to changed them once they were set. It was so streamlined that you could rewrite a program in the time that most software would take to edit and existing one.

Mcamnut, that's how mine is setup also. What I'm saying is that you shouldn't have to disable coolant and enable Mist. We should just be able to pick the one we want and be done with it. No pulldown menus, no enabledisable. just pick it. I guess you wouldn't know if you've never used Unigraphics but it has some of the most ridiculous menus anywhere. that's where I was coming from on the first post. that's also why i'm a programmer and not a comedian. i guess

Tony, I don't really have a screenshot to post. Your coolant menu probably looks just the same as mine. whisper....I'm teasing cnc software about the fact that they could've just used radio buttons.

I've been trying to figure it out. Those guys at Cnc Software Inc. are pretty darn smart. And X has some pretty cool stuff. granted, somethings need fixing but all in all it's pretty cool software. But this coolant menu--I couldn't figure out what could have happened there. But I just figured it out. Some UG engineers upon seeing Mastercam's market share knew something had to be done to stop them so they broke in, in the middle of the night and swapped our coolant menu with their own. I know that's what had to happen to it. It's COOLANTGATE! We've gotta snuff out these guys, hunt 'em down and treat them for the no-gooders that they are.

Paul, thanks for the quick response. We have some machines that we do something like that too. But this machine is more automated than that. I'm trying to use this pre-setter that's mounted on the table in such a way that it would take little or no interaction from the operator. There are 2 programs loaded in the machine that we could call up as subprograms or use as templates. in those programs the machine rapids to the presetter, feeds down till it touches. rapids up and then feeds down again. once it touches it sets the length offset automatically. I'm looking for a program that will run by itself and touch off 10 tools or 15 or 20(whichever we need at the time) while the operator is doing something else.

My okuma has a button style tool presetter on it. right now, we load the tools in the carosel, call up each tool in MDI and run the presetter program on it. (we have to run different programs depending on whether it needs to touch off "on center" or "offcenter"). It seems like there would be a Chook or stand alone program out there I could buy. Or I'm wondering if people are incorporating that into their postprocessors to touch off when the tool is called up.

George, Sorry I missed the pommy humor. I've got a brother in Australia, never get his humor either. Could be me, heh?

C'MON George, how much does each one of your programs cost your employer? How many mistakes do you make in each one? How much did this post cost your employer? You obviously put a lot of thought into it and it's still all screwed up. If your post was Cam software it wouldn't even boot up. Quit crying about someone elses mistakes. We all make them.

thanks, Beer can Billy. I feel a little silly now.

Sometimes when creating stock in a toolpath with bounding box, I select a solid with "all entities" unchecked and X and Y are right but I get a Z height of 0. Anyone else ever get this?

Jeff you've got mail

Looks like an unprovoked act of website terrorism---Kill him. As for me I couldn't be happier with the help that people have given me. There have been times when I've been stopped completely only to have some seasoned advice from some major league profesionals

anyone?

Anyone know how to set the duplicate point filter to on and keep it on? There should be something in a configuration file somewhere,right?

crickets

Can you make the entity selection method your default? I've been wondering about that for a while

Thanks Murlin, I'll give that a shot. I still would like to have that toolpath that they are showing on the box. But I'm beginning to think that picture is kind of like the pictures of cheeseburgers at the fast food places. there is no path like the one on the box is there? cmon cnc software guys stick up for yourselves here.

quote: But...I think...we'll still be...good enough...to beat... Missouri! Well.. now.. I'm not so sure about that.... It seems to me that the only ones who can beat Mizzou is their "on staff NCAA probation officers".....and any one in the elite8

quote: Hey, Smit...Where's your kewl Jayhawks siggy? It's that time of year again! Jayhawks??? do they have a team?

No, I haven't tried that. Does it give you the option of "constant z" on vertical corners?