I've always just used the right mouse button for fitting and zooming and such in Verify. Worked for me every time, hope it works for you. Remember, Happy.......New Year!

Take a look at the Cimco Performance Pack. Ask your reseller to show it to you. Well worth it for tool and die work. Rest-machining alone is worth it. Take care...

Chain 1 and 3 then process with lead in and out on. Set extend contour to what's needed. Chain 2 separately and set the extend/shorten values as neede. Save both ops in a library in case you will have to do something like this again. HTH

Backplot and Verify have never shown the pecking motion of drill paths. When I started I had the same question, waste of time I was told. I grew to accept that explanation, as long as my cycle was correct and my post was correct, I was fine. You will notice within your Ops manager that the cycle comes up on all drill paths, make sure they're the right ones and the depth is right and you're good to go. If you really, really want to see what's happening look into Vericut as a solution, that'll show you exactly what the machine does all the time. HTH Cheers...

Sounds to me like the Tool Maker is trying to analyze the display lines on the surfaces. Meaning the "mesh" within the surface. You don't need to extract curves unless you're going to use them to cut, either directly or as a boundary. Toolpaths, surface, rough or finish, select surfaces and away you go. Or, toolpaths, contour or pocket and pick the spline or chain the lines and again away you go. HTH...

Are you doing a replace Y type of move? If so, then unroll the 3-D curve into the centre of rotation. This will allow you to create arcs from splines or filter the toolpath so you get arcs. Any time you run a 3-D contour it can be unrolled and then the Rotary Axis button used to re-wrap the shape onto the cylinder. If this isn't the case I am sorry for wasting your time, perhaps describe the movement more and we'll have anothere crack. Take care...

Constant overlap with allign points for entry works like a hotdamn in 3-D. Which is the prefered way to run cavities, spiral inside to out and optimize cut order, this way you don't need to run around the walls a second time. The last pass is your finish pass. Don't forget to detect flats in the depth cuts. Overlap can be as big as you want since constant overlap is just that, a constant step from one pass to the next. If you think it takes too long versus zig-zag consider the fact you don't need a separate finish pass and also try highfeed, it works with a little set-up. The more we use it the better it will get with input from the community. Take care...

Constant overlap with allign points for entry works like a hotdamn in 3-D. Which is the prefered way to run cavities, spiral inside to out and optimize cut order, this way you don't need to run around the walls a second time. The last pass is your finish pass. Don't forget to detect flats in the depth cuts. Overlap can be as big as you want since constant overlap is just that, a constant step from one pass to the next. If you think it takes too long versus zig-zag consider the fact you don't need a separate finish pass and also try highfeed, it works with a little set-up. The more we use it the better it will get with input from the community. Take care...

For 2-D pockets you want to use Island Facing, it's one of your Pocket Types. For 3-D, Surface, rough, all surfaces done. Set up your tool and on the Cut Depths setting do a Detect Flats. Abs. or Inc. as you want or need it. Take care...

Now there's a point... My Canuckleheads are in tough against those boys from Minnesota. Point of fact; there are more B.C. natives on the Wild than there are on the Canucks. Immagine comming home to play a game and having you're own crowd boo you (good thing the folks on the west cost are so mellow as not to boo too much, we still have idiots, an Anthem). Remember the band Dire Straits? "Every time you point your finger you've got three more fingers pointing back at you". Final emphasis, I have yet to meet someone who'll admit to booing or harassing an American. Let's just say that all parties concerned are guilty of one thing or another. How do we fix it. Cheers everyone GO 'NUCKS...

I don't know folks... Nationalism, or too much of it, meaning fanatical behavior never did nobody no good(tripple negative goes back to single). My parents moved here because a person is free to do what they want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. They can also say what they want. They can meet with who they want. They can express their religion and traditions as well.Where would YOU like to live? I thought so, a place where you're free . If you've seen any of the NHL playoffs, at Canuck games the singer doing the anthems always holds the mic. up so the crowd can sing a portion of the Canadian song. I would like to see them do that for both anthems, then youl'd see some solidarity. People using a game to express anything but the celebration of the game itself are ignorant bufoons and unfortunately free to express themselves as much as anyone else. What gets me is that these jerks are not beat down by the rest of the crowd. I guess nice people there to enjoy a game can't be bothered with ignoramuses, game on. Remember, this discussion would not be going on in much of the world. It's a good thing that those places are becoming fewer and fewer and there are people working on that, in whatever capacity. Still a long way to go, but we're getting there. Take care everyone...

Jammer... Does this happen to every file? By that I mean can you make a file that may be clean dirty by just flipping back and forth. If you can then wait for 9.1 and see if it happens there. If some files behave themselve and some don't then there must be an identifiable difference between them. You'll have an easier time to identify where and how this dirtying of the op.s happens. Good luck...

Cherokeechief... Good idea to take your box to a reseller. Or, better yet, have one come show you how to do what you need, but in a side by side manner. They will be able to show you how to do things as if you say... "If I did something this way before, how do I go about it now"? This seems a pretty good way to prove out thing to your satisfaction. If anything comes up along the way your first line of defense is right there. Good luck, and judging from what I've read so far, you'll whittle your list down quite quickly.

You should try running an "empty" machine( one with nothing on the table) with single step on in the controler. Create a simple file, post it, and run it step by step to determin what the call out is versus what the machine actually does. Sort of like comparing files. This is the easiest way to figgure out what is going on. If it alarms, you know what to do based on the alarm message. If you're expecting an arc in Y,Z going down and away from you and you get one doing something different you can document it and it will make sense to anyone editing the post. HTH

I may be off base here but I think the ASII character 32 is a space command. None the less, in Cimco edit there is under NC functions an option to remove blank lines, try that. HTH