Ok, I thought I was doing something wrong and was beating myself up about it! Thanks LOL.

Well, I made the mistake of opening the cat40 holder library and selecting a holder for a tool (just playin around). I have ran into this before and ended up deleting the whole program and starting over because it got to be so annoying. Now every time I create a toolpath that warning pops open. The blue cross is grayed out Tom.

LOL. Yeah, that is awesome huh.

Very nicely done. Show us a pic of the final part.

That makes sense. We already decided this wasn't going to work though What are you using to create the videos?

That would leave a raised area around the radius though because the center of the face mill would not cut that area. Unless you used a center-cutting 4" endmill instead of a face mill.

No, it just happened on a 10-32 tap as well.

Sweet! I learned something new

I cannot save a Mastercam X4 file but I can show you what I did. Someone else may have a better suggestion, but here ya go... I created a surface using your geometry: I created a Flow 5 Axis toolpath using the following parameters:

Look at the OCZ Revo drives. I think they may even have one faster than this Intel for around $1000.

As cheap as RAM is having only 6 gig now is simply unacceptable. I have more memory in my laptop that is only used to browse craigslist LOL. Do not mix and match memory. You can, and it will work, but referring back to the cheapness of memory again... why would you? As for an SSD... GET ONE NOW! And get one AT LEAST 256GB. Adding an SSD is like adding a supercharger to an engine. When hopping up a car, you always get rid of the biggest bottleneck first. Run a Windows Experience Index on your PC. I guarantee you the hard drive is what is holding you back from being in the 7's. An SSD is hands down THE BEST bang for the buck upgrade in a PC. Don't just buy the cheapest though. Corsair is my favorite, but Crucial, and Intel (especially the Cherryville) are some of the highest rated SSD's. Compare read and write speeds. You will see benefits of having an SSD in almost everything you do. When you open a program, save a file, or do something as simple as search for a file on the hard drive you will be amazed at the speed at which these things happen. From the time I press my power on button to the time I am looking at my desktop takes less than 25 seconds (counting post time and logging in!). With a platter drive this can take a few minutes. I guarantee you if your boss knew how much of a difference these make he'd not only buy you one but one for himself as well. If I were your boss I would buy these for your PC... Memory SSD And this wicked fast PCIe card for mine HOLY ####!

I agree. Face each side then position the rad straight up and surface with a ball endmill. A facemill will not work the way you are wanting.

I don't see how you are getting a chain to select both the top and bottom chain of a hole?? Maybe try selecting single entities? In the chaining dialog box select the one that looks like a line. It will be "Single Entity"

Wrong forum lol

I spent time with the learning edition of X when I first started my current job. It really helped out. I found some tutorials online and went to town drawing things. Within a few days my boss was asking me questions on how I was doing certain things in Mastercam. But I never messed with anything before version X. I heard it's a leap from 9. Oh, and the people here are a lot of help. I see you have made more than one post. So you'll do fine. Welcome to eMastercam

So far, that's all I've seen bug out on me. But I've been using metric taps the last few days.

This is funny... I just went to create a new tap AGAIN... I set the tool number and diameter. Went to the parameters page and set the feed, coolant, and offsets. I set it to G84. I went back to the first tab to check to make sure my diameter was set right, then back to the parameters tab and the G84 changed back to a G81. Set it back to a G84 and switch tabs again and it switches back to a G81. I thought maybe this was happening when creating a tool so I made absolutely sure the tool saved as a G84 before closing and restarting Mastercam and voila... G81 again.

I created a new M3 tap and saved back into my tool library and I am still able to generate this problem. I never once saw this in X5. I contacted Mitch at Cad-Cam tech and he said he can't seem to regenerate the problem. I can go to another workstation with a completely different tool library and recreate this. I created a brand new tap and saved it to my library. Then I created a tapped hole toolpath and imported this tap, saved it. Re-opened it and it was still set to a G84. Delete the toolpath, delete the tool from the program, and re-import the same tool again and re-create the tapped hole toolpath again. Save the file. Re-open, and get a G81 setting on the tool again. This seems to be somewhat random with the new tool where before it was every time I saved the file. Anybody else able to re-create this problem besides me and Cannon?

I think I already tried that. But now it's doing it with my M4 tap as well.

I just imported a 1/4"-28 tap and went through the same process of saving, closing, and re-opening the file and the 1/4"-28 tap did not change to a G81, but the M3 x .5 tap did. I tried re-importing the M3 tap and it still changes to a G81 after re-opening.

Locking the toolpath does not solve this problem. I locked the toolpaths, then opened files that use taps. They revert back to G81. Not good!

Because you're not doing it the way Cannon is. He is copying a toolpath that is already using the tap. I have thesame problem. Happens even when I save a file and re-open.

Well, I was able to reproduce the problem, but I am not at work now to try your suggestion. Here is what I did to reproduce the problem... I created a temp library and saved the tap into that library. Here the tool shows in the Temp library it is set to a G84: It also shows after importing it it is still set to G84: I use it in a toolpath and it is still G84: Save the file and re-open it and it has switched to a G81: Will locking the feedrates solve this? I will try it tomorrow and get back with you. Thanks.

That would be ideal for me as well, but to keep a vise and a right angle plate dedicated to a setup like this wouldn't last long where I work