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:cough: (clears throat) (in my best John McEnroe voice)....YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS! Have you seen a CNC Lathe (usually they're the longer less tall machines, although that could be a horizontal mill so perhaps this is a bad analogy), anyway, they have something called CSS. Watch that baby face a largeish diameter part, and while that spindle RPM changes right in front of your eyes, cus it out to your hearts content!

TBF, the SP2 patch is what made V9!

Yehbut SP2.

Shout out to a 'lil bit of Sheffield slang!

100% ChyNuh subsidising - one of my Customers back 10 years ago was getting pressure to go there for parts from corporate as corporate had "their own factory " :snort: And then they looked at total batch size, no guarantee of mtl quality, no treatments, middle-man% etc etc - but yes, they were categorically told it was Gov subsidising from the "in country own factory" :double snort: Edit:- ref the "how do we know it's the right mtl" - my Customer even got as far as offering to supply material and ship to ChyNuh. I asked, "how do you know they'll use it'.... reply was "errrr, well, that's a very good point"

Just wondering JP....how do you handle legacy files?

Contour ramp with compensation and specifically cut it undersize with a force toolchange selected in the operation. Run it, the tool will retract home and you can then check the bore size. Alter your comp value - re-run the tool and check your size. Rinse and repeat to get it right and then continue with your process....

HUbba HUbba....THAT would have revved me RIGHT up. Glad you got it all sorted - and they say "bitmaking" is supposed to be the difficult thing....

As you say, there was LOTS of "noise" about this back in the day. But what % actually used it, or needed it, or understood it etc?

Hmmmm....I'm old enough to remember MANY requests going back to the X5 beta days which were spoken about as "great ideas", yet left on the cutting room floor.... And as for "feature fixes"....

Aye Eye Baby!

Project 3D the geometry onto the surface. Chain the paths and use centreline, setting to contour 3D (activating depths)

Dang Scott. Sorry to read this and hopefully everything works out for the better

No....you're not my boss!