I had a customer that used left handed endmills for mirrored parts. Though it was the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

I started yesterday..... Started in a small machine shop when I was 16. After school and after football practice. Put me on a Fadal 4020 CNC Mill after 2 weeks.... wrote meh first program 3 weeks later. Watched the code as the machine was running and figured it out. After the boss saw I had the "knack" for it he put a stack of prints in front of me and told me to go to work. 6 months after long handing on a format 1 fadal they put me in the chair with MC6. That's the day I went from an "operator" to a "Programmer"..... never looked back. 17 years later I'm still doing the same thing and I couldn't imagine doing anything else. Got an education, taught CNC machining at a local technical college for a couple of years, moved up to a management position in a Fortune 500 company. All that said, I still love to see chips fly. I still do contract work for a few local shops around the area just to keep my hands on a machine and sharp on MC. Truth be told it's not for the $$$...... just because I truly love doing this crap.

Lemon

+1 to Dynamic WCS But in reality COR is the best way to keep programs "universal" IMO

A customer had issues with a VF8 50 taper in the past. Ran at 10K for hours at a time. Balanced holders solved the problem. Sounds like you've got a lemon.

3 Customers use Wear. 1 Customer demands Control. Just a matter of taste meh guesses

Hmm... did you write the coding for the Axis Brake commands? Something may be weird in that section of your post.

Not exactly true.... the AgieVision control is very powerful in the fact that you can import in files and program at the machine. It's not typical "G-Code Programming" in that you are using the AgieVision Screens to apply wire paths. There is a G-code file that is produced but it is the simple coordinate path of the burn but the control uses internal sub routines for starts, lead on/off, number of passes, tags, etc. That said the AgieVision is powerful but it doesn't play well with others, i.e. Mastercam Wire. Their control wants the user to input all parameters at the machine.... not an offline software.

Agie fan here. Great with 5 Axis cuts and the new Vertex Series machines have the most powerful generators I've ever worked with. Put Cobra Cut A wire on it and it cooks faster than anything out there. Only complaint is using MC to program them. Agies are very different with the methods and screens in their software. MC had a lot of post development to get the information right and (IMO) it still isn't great. We bought a seat of PEPS just to program the Agie Machines and haven't looked back. In short, if you want to use MC to gram the difficult stuff Fanuc or Mits would be the way to go.

+1. This has always been an issue with a lot of outside customers. You're probably getting these drawings from purchasing people who couldn't even CAD! Back in the day, we put in our pre-reqs that a digital file was required for CNC Programming purposes. We usually got generic files (IGES, STEP, DXF, etc.) but it was usable. One customer sent Pro-E models and that was a blessing!

+1!

Greg, Shoot me an email.

Equal Depths help tool life but at the end of the day.... Acme Threads suck! Good Luck Bro!

That sounds like a question for Heidenhain bro. Parameter in the TNC got screwed up and most of the time it requires a passcode to adjust this... which you may not have.

+1 to Keith's method