This happened to me not to long ago. After a call to my reseller, the solution was to unregister, and then re-resister the file. Do this by running regsvr32-u(path and filename, then run regsvr32 (path and file name), from the run command in start menu of windows. HTH, Jeff

Try conventional milling instead of climb milling. That may help. Jeff

We used a light oil called Almag for cutting mag castings. Works well without the corrosion from water soluble coolant and fire was never a issue. The biggest complaint was the mess. HTH, Jeff

I have, kinda. Using mplmaster, same settings as stated earlier but set increment seq no to 10. We only have 10 tool turrets here so each tool gets a line no. 1 thru 10, first canned cycle gets p11 q21 and the canned cycle line numbers correspond. Seems to work fine here. I have only used this for canned roughing so far, as finish passes are hard coded. HTH

Have you considered a facing head? They even make nc controlled ones now. Check out dandrea.com

That got it. Thank you!

Could someone please explain to me how to change the rough canned cycle format from the two line, ex.: G71 U.1 R0. G71 P100 Q102 U.04 W.005 F.01 to the 1 line ex.: G71 P100 Q102 U.04 W.005 D100 F.01 in X2 MR2 Thanks, Jeff

Not real good at this. Is this what your looking for? plinout #Output to NC of linear movement - feed pcan1, pbld, n, sgfeed, sgplane, `sgcode, sgabsinc, pwcs, pccdia, pxout, pyout, pzout, pcout, feed, strcantext, scoolant, e Jeff

Hello, long time reader, 1st post. After a similar experiance as cncchuck, I remembered this post and apllied the solution to my mphaas post, only it worked to well, the d# is on all the lines from the G41/G42 to G40. Prolly won't hurt anything, but will wipe the setup guys out. Any idea how to force the d on only the line with the G41/G42? Running x2 mr1 sp1. Thanks Jeff