Oh, Forgot to add: DUH!!!

Wow, it's the simple stuff eh? Nothing like a little feature to make ya scratch yer head, I've been running full speed for a while now, and never encountered it, must have changed my selection by accident and lo, had to get humble. Thanks for the wake up.

Yep, Gnom moves but geo doesn't. Also having the slow issues described in the other thread. Just visited this I am going to roll back and see if it fixes it, Ditto what crazy said, "Thank you Microsoft"

All of a sudden, no work, anyone else have this happen? M/C 2018 Dell XPS 8500, 24g ram, NVidia GeForce GT650 Win 10 Home

Use "computer" for all cutting, rough and finish, I use "wear" for any tight tolerance feature, ie: mating part, tooling fit, hole / bore sizing.

had it running over 180 before, machine got real jerky, 2005 vintage. I'm actually jealous of Ron, 400 just has a good ring to it.

Nice work! You have that animal running real smooth. I would be interested to see what the machine settings and MC parameters are.

Cool stuff Ron, Thanks for passing the info along! Still running my 7.5 hp minimill at 120ipm in 4340, 1/2 dia, 5 flute SGS, 1.0 deep, I suppose if I dropped from 20% stepover to 10% stepover, I could probably get it to run over 200. Whaddya think?

Quite possibly a recreated, duplicated, redundant copy of a certain troll, but the troll started at X2! Bob, I use the "reference point" almost exclusively, I simply use it at the last operation before I know I will rotate the 4th ax, thus keeping all of the ops for each part down in the cut as close as possible, including using incremental retract and feed planes to keep it even closer. I have saved a ton of time doing it this way.

This PARALELL SAMPLE.MCX-7

How about requiring a user to log changes into the Verisurf add-in notepad tab, date, time, changes and reason for change. The "part note" area will stay with the part file, while the "note" area will stay with M/C regardless of file opened, including closing and reopening M/C Small thinking, but maybe small enough to chase down the offending party, and create some projected accountability.

Stop by the shop, I have a hard copy

Surface finish shallow, use edge curves created from the solid pocket edges for containment.

Stand it up and use a .130 Thurston slitting saw or equivalent to mill it after milling the profile of the outside of the fins, use an extended arbor to get all the slots in 1 op. If you have to stay laying down, maybe try to select all the fins and go with a simple contour with depth cuts, and step down by depth, then take a finish pass on the walls, it would create a lot less code. Made a few heatsinks before, these are two of the techniques we used.

I didn't mean to kill this thread! To the OP, What did you end up getting the part done with? Tool? Toolpath?