Hey, I'd guess you would probably be somewhat ticked if you went to do someone a favor on your time off, got it done and it turned out great, then self destructed when you went to wrap it up. You might appreciate my feeling a need to vent here where the frustrating experience is understood. Or you might not and that's OK too. I'll do what I need to do and I'll get over it, but I feel I have a right to be mad as hell for at least a little while. So thanks for listening, thanks for any insight someone may have as to what exactly happened to my file, and thank you Storkman for your hospitality. Actually made me chuckle for a sec.

I can't begin to say how completely POed I am right now with MC. After messing around with a file for a shop that does work for us, getting everything JUST RIGHT so they can see how to get good results, I posted the code and it f****d up my ops. I mean really. Some it just got rid of, some it changed from one group to another, and a couple I can't even explain what it did! Here's a pic of what I'm seeing. Notice operation 9 in the operation manager. That's the only path turned on in the display. Was programmed with a 1/2" bull end mill and now shows my surfacing path as a facing operation with the shell mill I was using for facing. HUH??? Of course MC has crashed so many times I now have my autosave set at 5 minutes and the bad file had already been saved by the time I figured out what was going on. Is anyone able to shed some light on what I might have done wrong here? I'll definately be contacting my Mcam dealer about this on Monday. I'll be using V9 for now, I'm worn out from fighting with VX

I could be mistaken here, but it SEEMS like I had once copied an op and pasted to discover that all the ops had been selected. The new pasted ops were in reverse order, so deleting the original ops instead of the new ones would have left them reversed. Did you have something like that happen?

Hey all, first post here though I have done some searches and read a ton of good info here. I have also been helped out of a few McamX jams through searches here. I haven't really found what I'm looking for regarding the library setups or exactly what I can get out of them. I've been using Mastercam since version 7, but have never really set up the libraries. I've been pretty successful just picking a suitable tool diameter and shape, then specifying speed feed and depth of cut. Not too bad I guess, since we now have 4X as many employees and and machines as we had back then. Of course, with the volume of work we're doing now, I no longer do all the programming myself. Some of the programs we've been running haven't quite been up to par and I'm looking for some help for my helpers. SO... the questions. What can I do with the libraries to make less choices for my people? I know about setting up tool numbers with speeds and feeds, but what about cut depths or stepovers? For finishing and for roughing cuts with the same tool? Are there available tool and or material libraries that I can get and load up for baseline info? I know if I grab a long thin tool I need to slow it down and take light cuts, but exactly how slow and light I don't know. I just wing it and usually it comes out ok. I can't tell my people to "wing it" though, or we end up with problems. Thanks for any feedback.