While I can see the value to programmers to have certification, I have to believe that there is little incentive for employers to have existing programmers certified. First of all your boss probably knows how good you are. Secondly, certs are a programmers ammunition for a raise, and few employers out there have any interest in paying higher salaries, period. I can however, see the benifits to resellers and instructors, these classes will not be free, (nor should they be) and I am sure the added revinue stream would be most welcome. Peter

Alternatively, open mastercam, switch config to metric, open metric file switch config back to inch, mastercam will ask you if you want to scale part, say yes. Peter

Perhaps the switch (enter on first depth cut only) was checked in error. This in in the lead in/out page. Peter

Here's one last idea, might be worthless. System restore might work if you had a restore point in the time frame between starting the file and the crash. I used it once to recover many accidently deleted files once. After I got my files back I undid the restore, have a good weekend all. Peter

We have Hyundai lathes with Siemens controllers, and as a Fanuc guy I have to vote thumbs down. Program organization, especially canned cycles suck, as Iskander pointed out. The control is a pain for the operator, page after page to get to what you want to do. Threading cycles have no extra accuracy, B for radius(no big deal). You can do everything that you need to but you will definatly pull out some hair getting used to it. Peter

A lot of good advise here, but first of all there are two types of knurling tools , plunge and cut, and the techniques for both are different. My experience is a little stale, about a decade old, but I done a fair amount of production knurling. What I found worked best was to use cut type knurling tools, plunge perhaps z-.050 to depth at a low rpm dwell a short time to let the tool settle in then up the RPM and feed through the cut. Knurling is a bit of an art regardless, two wheel cutters need to be finely centered to cut evenly and sometimes when knurling alloys such as inco the wheel needs to be relieved behind the cut to reduce tool pressure. Hope this helps. Peter

Thanks for the tip Corby, total tolerance = filter, go figure. Peter

I think that my point has been missed, I know of the filter tab that is in many of the toolpaths, both for 2d, 3d and surfacing toolpaths. Surface restmill for example dos'nt have a filter tab. In v9 if you right click in the op manager the second selection options includes filter, which worked on any toolpath. I am wondering if there is any such animal in X or if someone out there has a chook to do the same thing? Peter

Is there an external toolpath filter for x as in v9? Some of the surface toolpaths do not have an internal filter and I need to shrink my program a bit, we don't do dnc here and I don't see any reason to go throught the hassle of setting it up for one job. Perhaps a chook aka v7?

You can also do this to supress new workshift creation. In tranforms first page on the lower right there are selections under work offset numbering, one of the selections is assign new, check that, also check match existing offsets. This combo works for me. Peter

How about using a 90 deg. double angle cutter, and a 2d chamfer contour toolpath Harvey tools makes one as small as 1/16 head dia. If that isn't stiff enough to do both sides, a single angle cutter would be my choice. Peter

Here's something that I do sometimes, single select items and hit the delete key each time without having touched the delete icon. You peck away at the geometry that way and are less likely to delete wanted stuff. Peter

It,s one of the first things that I complained about, when x hit my desk, I vote fix it. Peter

That is in fact exactly what I am seeing Dave. I will send this off at gcodes suggestion. Thanks all and have a great weekend, Peter

P.S. it seems all of the lathe diameter views make for bad times, Lathe radius views work fine. Peter

So far it only screws up in d+z Peter

Heck, maybe this thing is a little erratic after all. because it works fine in top view and in front view but not in d+z I'll check it out in some other views and post back Peter

My most humble apologies folks. I finally figured it out and it ain't so bad after all. P.S. has anyone found my bottle of prozak?

My point exactly! twice the typing. In earlier versions one might for example type in d0z0 ent d1. ent z-.25 ent d1.25 ent etc. etc. etc. But hey this is no big deal to me I'll just tell my lathe guy to get used to it. I'm curious what other lathe programmers think about this, perhaps it really is no big deal. Peter

I don't think YOU have really tried the multi line function, I did indeed engage the little multi line icon. You have to type in both values of the next leg of the target, or the leg that you didn't specify will go to where ever the cursor happens to be. This represents twice the effort. Peter

In ver 9 and prior, create line multi then start typing. The coordinates of your last entry were by default the start of your next line. Now I know that multi line in x is on the surface similar, however since it is so tied to the mouse, you end up with just a sketching tool. I tried using the spacebar to bypass the mouse, and it seemed very unnatural, (plus I locked up my function hitting Esc one time) The coordinate spaces are three axis fields even though you are only using two axies in D+Z so they are even worse than using the spacebar. Peter

Well, I like the fact that they put all the circle tangent functions into the circle tangent icon. I spent an inordinant ammount of time hunting for them before mr1. Peter

I am forwarding this complaint from our lathe programmer. The x version of mluti line seems to be essentially useless. I know from my own prior experience as a lathe programmer in earlier versions of mastercam that create-line-multi was by far the fastest way to create a profile. It was never as useful a tool in mill, so I haven't used it very much for years now, But I played with it a little and I have to agree with his acessment. Any comments or tips would be welcome. Peter

Are you running wet or dry? The spindle chiller for a haas is the coolant. We have had tool jams after dry machining and then letting the machine sit( and cool down a bit) Peter

I am observing something that may be associated with Jim's issue. In the lower toolbar, are gview and plane buttons, if I go to planes, named, and click on a named view a window opens to save my NEW view. Well I already have the view that I named and just tried to select. If I don't exit out of that function a new view is saved into the view manager, I ended up with a lot of usless new views before I caught on to this. The only way that I can change my plane while being in another view is to go to the view manager and select my desired view from there. I believe that this is a new bug, as this didn't happen before mr1. Peter, x-mr1