I already brought that up Yeah, thats what i like about you, totally because my hands are tied to learn the new releases and workarounds..... But if i can find the time to prove, say X9, on my limited time on weekends, i just may be able to convince my company otherwise about the protocol, if CNC indeed kills it with a more than reasonable stable release.

Not necessary, contact CNC directly and see if they are even humoring that type of enhancement. the New CNC forum is the best place to get some kind of answer as to if and when they plan on that type of enhancement. I think i am installing X9 at home this week end just to see how many more advancements there are or if they at minimum cleaned up the X8 left over issues that missed the last update.

----- He may mean at minimum just 3-d paths JP, even I got that one.... ROR!! He MAY want it to work like Powermill. start a stock model and forget about it, or better yet not having to select geometry separately for every single path, when a change in geometry occurs in a solid. it just knows how to calculate and handles rest machining, superbly, before creating the path. Cant wait for X9, hearing good things.

ROUR!

YES!...

shoulda skipped X8 Murlin.

Always a crap shoot for all my mold components. unless it is dead simple I add, to the times, 35% for complex John, do you ever see the buffer on the controller bog down when drip feeding?

I'm in the same boat.

Thad, your concerns are here to stay in X8. Might want to install the public beta for X9 and see whats up.

Why, are they from Canada?....

This is basically the best non maintenace forum.

Murlin, I hope you can afford maintenance. Alot of things in the other forum were addressed with "Its fixed in X9, or something like that" So if your stuck at X8, sorry to hear.

Is that X9 john?

Don't sweat it. At least you weren't sitting idle while waiting....

@ Sticky No, but some Beta testers have non chalantly boasted they use it, so public Beta, from what I imagine will be out in August. A lot of things they could not address in 8, will hopefully be addressed in 9, from what they share on the CNC forum.

You did the right thing going to a forum. Maybe try the CNC forum, they may need to know what did not get fixed In the update, so they can start Planning update 5. Worse case, you'll have to wait till x9.

Well, I just for fun, executed the action twice and the window stays......LOL level manager still jumps from other screen over top the window now, but I can work now....Lol I needed a 3 hr break anyways

also when i click on bounding box etc., my level manager jumps to the other monitor and reduces in size...... its like my computer needs a coffee or something....

This started last week and hitting Enter would sometimes get it back, or close and open MC would. now I cant get it to stay on the screen at all, even after a reboot. on a fresh reboot with only MC open: I open a file and i select bounding box( or any thing that would require the chaining window dialog box), It appears for 1/2 a second then disappears, i minimize MC and the it is not hidden behind minimized in any way. So I cant finish the bounding box. trim surfaces to curves.....etc. cant finish the task??? Any ideas to get it to stay? this also is a problem with X6. I updated my quadro k4000 video drivers last week. may this have anything to do with it? Although my helpers p.c. is identical to mine and he does not have this issue. I tried moving my .config files to my desk top and let MC create new ones, but that did not help Thanks for help in advance Rick

Likely in a couple versions from now i would think Maybe the safest is to not use solids and convert to surfaces

Ok, gotcha

I'm at home an no hasp, but I wonder if you can do an opticore with stock to leave on sides but not z. Then set the z limits in steep shallow to only make one pass on the final z level. That should lead it in off the part.... If feesable Jay, canyougive it a shot in X7?

hopefully it will suffice to your liking. might have to change a few feed settings etc (entry)

horizontal works well File Example attached HELP HORZ.MCX-7

One more update and I also am moving on to X8.