You can lead someone to tools, but you can't make them use them? Are we doing cliche's? :D

I hate that. :D I'll use it for odd ball chamfers at times when we have one offs that the boss brought in on short notice. I'll usually just extend the surfaces. Not very elegant, but it works in a pinch.

I am not a number! I am a free man!

And here I thought that crazymill was the #3 FFS. I need to get my xxxx together. https://youtu.be/a7LH__BPqSY

Not every path works in every situation on every machine. There is no one size fits all argument for HSM tool paths. Having said that, that guy sound a little ignorant and stubborn. I guess that rejecting those paths is his loss? Will you get in trouble if you do? If not, and you're confident in your approach, who cares what he thinks?

It's a different site. We branched off when they shut down the offtopic here. I want to make sure that it's clear that were not trying to take away from this forum but to kinda add the alternative offtopic back. You'll have to create an account on that forum. If you decide to and have any issues let me know and we'll get it sorted out.

What is going on with this forum!?! ahhhhhhhhh!

I don't want to be too critical of something that I don't understand, so I'll refrain. Back in the early 2000's we housed an apprenticeship in our shop. It was only a 6 month apprenticeship but it was all manual machining. We never had anyone hack saw anything or file anything. Our shop was majority CNC at the time but we felt that people would get a better education starting from the roots of machining. If you passed we would recommend you to other shops. Not once did filing ever come up. To Rekd, those niche abilities are great to have. I don't mean to criticize.

Out of curiosity, Why? Most of today's machining doesn't even require hand deburring. Hand working parts is definitely an art so don't get me wrong, but try to find someone who even want's to do it these days. If I bring a part to QC that needs to be filed in any way I would probably be reprimanded. :D

I took machine shop classes back in the 80's. They didn't focus on filing. Is that really part of todays apprenticeships?

I probably should have said emojis? :| :lol:

I'm seeing a few new functions that I'm not entirely thrilled with. :D I don't like change! What happened to the emoticons!?!

We had a kid who no longer works here tell the boss one day that he was going to leave for greener pastures because he didn't feel like he was getting paid what he was worth. We asked what he thought he was worth and why he thought that. He had watched a bunch of youtube videos and instagram posts and thought that he had become an expert. The boss told him to take the other job and that his job would be waiting for him when he came back. He was back in less than 30 days. It turned out that he didn't learn as much as he thought he did and they were able to figure that out fairly quickly.

I didn't realize that you guys had a conversation going on over here about this. Colin, can I ask you a question? What is the cur_cflg$ = 70000 all about? The contour flags doesn't have 70000 listed as an option and the only reference I can find to 70000 anything is that it's reserved for future functionality?

I did the 3d mill cert but only because I had some free time and they were offering it for free during the covid lockdowns. I've worked in the same shop for almost 30 years now. I doubt that thing will ever see the light of day.

If you can post a step file, then you can post a mastercam file. It's not his problem. He just chooses to help people who aren't bootlegging the software. Ron is one of the most helpful people on the forum. If you don't want his help and just choose to get defensive when he asks for some insurance that you're using a legit version of the software, then that's your loss.

Apparently you have to install the PB to see the 'whats new' pdf.

I think that someone is having some 'he who's name should not be spoken' PTSD.

That's what I would suggest if it's possible. Drilling through a cast cross hole in 718.

There are two viewsheets you can look at in his file. Click on the one that says _Front and you'll see the flat pattern. the geometry is on level 2.

I think that he's talking about the default filename when saving the report? It defaults to the machine definition name. Is it possible to change that?

As Jparis said, your planes aren't set up properly. Not sure how your machine definition is set up for your HMC, but you should be using for example, Top/Front planes. You are working on Top/Top.

No disagreement there. It just seems like this is a little unnecessary.

I must be that stupid because I agree with them. Not everyone is computer savvy. Over complicating something that should be basic is obviously something they did on purpose to make it more difficult for people (especially those who aren't PC savvy) to switch away from Microsoft Edge. Typical MS. The video I watched and the complaint(s) came from one of the guys @ Linus Tech Tips. edit: I should add - the video I watched was pre release I believe. That's why I asked about it.

I think that the complain was that you had to change each individual extension rather than a blanket 'change my default browser to firefox/chrome/safari'.