I see a LOT of little edges there. Not surprised there's issues

Sometimes keeping it simple is best!

You have fully achieved "grumpy old man" status!!!! I aspire to be like you!!

tried to save a model chamfer operation to defaults. It erased, deleted, wiped out ALL Viewsheets!! This was posted on the MC site and already has a number, so just FYI here. "We have this in the system as R-35372. The equally annoying workaround is to save the file before saving to defaults. The viewsheets are still removed but reopening the file brings them back."

You could make a dummy operation that just feeds one turn at whatever feedrate you are looking for. The Z depth would have to match but the top of the thread would be up about 032 incrementally.

Try detailed report?

Agreed very Much Ron!!! Right now, we are trying to deal with making a good part that is steel angle and channel welded together from a drawing with multiple datums and implied tolerances projected over 36 inches from a 1-1/4 wide datum plane on an angle not in the same plane. I wish Ingineeeers had more real-world experience. Then all we'd have to do is worry about the job itself. Don't get me wrong I enjoy these challenges most of the time. The ways a job can go wrong are as varied as the specks of dust in the universe. Starting with shift change.......... Still aside from that, I would be happy to never have to machine Tantalum ever again. :Hijack off:

LOL, there is an easy button??? This is machining, it's never "easy"

Once I "fully" understood radial chip thinning, my perception of machining changed dramatically. I remember doing something that resembled HSM WAY back in the Bridgeport days, but it was just what looked and felt right. Now I understand what I was doing. The dynamic paths or HSM are really the best!!!

Oh my!!! looks like it is closer than I thought......I am not smart enough to know whether or not the numbers are close to basic alloy numbers .

Flowline is still one of the best for non complex surfacing. I have run in to this with hybrid and had ONE stepover too big at the transition and not able to get rid of it. Probably operator error though. Dedicated subscriber to K.I.S.S. here

I've said for a very long time, that when they figure out "grain structure", the world will change overnight. EDIT: Then I just saw this in an article quoted: "A team from Sandia National Laboratories and Texas A&M University was testing the resilience of the metal, using a specialized transmission electron microscope technique to pull the ends of the metal 200 times every second. They then observed the self-healing at ultra-small scales in a 40-nanometer-thick piece of platinum suspended in a vacuum."

Mo Betta

plus or minus zero

What material?

I mentioned in another thread that allowing levels to be "active" meaning visible AND selectable vs. non-active meaning visible but NOT selectable would have real beneficial use. Then there were jokes about CAD functions yadda yadda I'll say again, there is a use for this function.

:OFFTOPIC: When I started, guys got fired for things like attitude, not following directions, doing dumb things, hitting things with a hammer and stuff like that. Yelling was common and expectations were always very high. i started by cleaning machines. Now, a new guy just starts making parts. No need to even measure a part....?? I would say that things are different, but what is the most damning for our industry is setting expectations at a level that encourages learning and getting it right.

I got that one figured out...planes too just so I can check. Still never know if the coolant is on.

Now, can we have levels visible but NOT selectable?? Or is that just too much? :hijack off:

no edit: I think no, but may be mistaken

I started with MC2019 I took the boxed setup sheet, mill2 I think and modified it to fit our needs. We are up to rev6 now. We are a small shop, mostly short run and one offs. So far, MC has had the best setup sheet I've worked with. With operators now being setup guys too, (Another discussion entirely) more and more detail is needed. What you have looks like was generated from Active reports in part. Looks detailed. Failing to have attention to detail in this industry is well, failure. There are as many ways to go about things as there are machinists. Getting the policy set and following it I think would be at least as important as the details.

I worked for that guy for about 6 working days. Turns out it was about 7 days too long.

How long to learn? I could ask the definition of learn. LOL You could learn to hack around and make parts fairly quickly but to really "know" the software, it will take some time. I do better in a small class with an instructor for learning. I just have a hard time with videos learning. Everyone learns a little differently.

Wow, I may not be the oldest around here.....when I was a 10 year manual guy we got a computer and a CNC I learned how to run a computer and software at the same time with Gibbs on a Mac. Still have an old Mac that works and it;s very powerful up to 2-1/2 axis work. simple and fast.

THIS COMMENT FIELD SEEMS TO BE 256 MAX Thanks for the info!