quote: Just been reading about Levels.all OK. in V9 Screen / Change Levels. How do you change the level of an entity? in X. quote: Select the entity/entities ( they turn yellow) right click the level manager box on the bottom of the screen. Click OK or choose a different level and click OK quote: Right click over "Level" in status bar at bottom of screen. Pick geometry to change, end selection. Pop-up should ask for your info. Ok I tried these ideas and they didn't work. all I want to do is copy something from one level to another. I can get it to move but not copy. any help would be great. thanks spade

quote: Do you have a web address for them? web page

quote: **bump** huh?

accu-snap makes machinable jaws that might be what you are looking for.

I have not had any problems with either 8 or 3.

what happened to defect #CNC 00013244?

I use cimco on everything here.

in x it could be a graphics card.

in x or off the machine?

I don't know why it is doing that, but when you edit you can remove block #'s and then remove empty lines and then put block #'s back in.

in regaurds to retention knobs: some of the people here used loctite on them,we have not had any problems. I was always against the practice because we used to interchange knobs between machines. Now we don't have that problem anymore. I have always used a spanner wrench with a soft hammer.

I've seen other windows applications do that, but I don't think it is something you can edit. sorry.

you could play around with it till you figure out where it is in the post processer.

if you left click on the toolpath you can give it a name but the # will not go away. I do this for an explanation to the operator so they know what the cutter is supposed to be doing. I hope that helps you.

be more specific.

I have had problems, but most of them were resolved by either reading the book or asking on this forum. I don.t neccesarily dislike it but you are right about liking it because I learn something new.

the name is good while it lasts

we just got rid of 2 500's. they could not rigid tap. but the yasnac control was very good and the machine made good parts - just slower.

in the parameters of the toolpath you can go to planes and change work offset # to 1 for g55. unless you already fixed the problem

I like cimco very much also, but I'm still at version 4.32- but it works very well for me.

so, when all you people updated x did you have to back and change any settings?

I have mmd files for the machines we use, but for some reason it won't accept them as a selection

when I try to set the type of machine that I'm using I get an error that says: Control definition file for machine not found. default control settings will be loaded. I thought I had already configured all my files to x

I figured it out, but it was just a new toolpath group, I still had to copy them from toolpath 1 to toolpath 2.

why is it that when I start a new toolpath group my previously used tools are not there anymore. It has taken me almost a full day to program a square part with holes in 2 sides.