Hit alt-f9 at the same time and see if that changes it for you.

Be glad to see the change.

James get a copy of VB basics for Excel. It will help you understand how the formatting it working in this type of program a lot easier.

Good luck. The true type fonts are box type fonts. To get true arial you will need to spend the time making up your own from the wireframe. You might try raster to vector with a file from paint text made in the Arial font. Sorry I have not got better news for you on that one. HTH

Do you know what the correct code for what you are trying to do should look like?

If you have the wireframe can you make a draft surface. Might have to create a .05 offset surface that you will trim the draft surfaces from the chains to. A couple different ways you can approach it. You got some screen shoots or a file you can share? HTH

Mastercam Lathe can program that machine with no problem.

That small of tool I would think 1750 sfm for finishing would be no problem. Maybe .002 to .0022 feed per tooth.

Renishaw may have changed their policy, but if the package was not purchased with the machine then you had to buy them. Making the macros can take time and for the cost of them well worth the investment IMHO. HTH

I think it should go to 9999 not 1000 so might get with In-House and see if there is a machine definition setting that needs to be changed or a post setting if the machine will allow up to 9999 values for inverse time. HTH

Check the post and see if it set-up to use 5 places before the decimal for inverse time and also if the machine will support 5 places before the decimal. If the machine will and the post is not then get it changed and try that. On smaller parts where the machine has high feed rates the inverse time factor needs to go to higher numbers in the past I have seen post only go to 999 when they should have gone to 99999. That may not be the case here, but never hurts to have things to look at. G43.4 or .5 is the only way to go with 5 axis on Mazaks since it allows you to have one gauge length for programming and allows Mazatrol to compensate for all axis moves in the control for different length tools. Be real careful thought that when going home you turn it off or when doing drastic indexes. In those cases I like to use a curve 5 axis toolpath when I keep control of the machine using code verses allowing it to deicde how to to index positions. HTH

Make sure they are all at the same z plane. Make sure the center of the tool is at the origin. I always tell people take one of the tools from the mill/tools folder and adjust it to suit the needs of what you are looking to do. Now some people have luck using no center line, but I have always used one. Also there is this great resource called help that does a good job of explaining a lot of these things. HTH

Pete has always been willing to help us out when it comes to problems so he would be the person I would get a hold of to get this issue straightened out. We do not see this on 6 different computers running anything from XP 32 bit to Windows 7 64 bit. But on another note why would the improved toolpaths not be the reason you would want to keep to up to date? Some little minor problems with minor functions in the software keep you from keeping current? I would think the newer toolpaths that give you so much improvements for running parts would be more important, but hey if you are our competition please stay with X2 we would not want you to be even with us and start getting the work we keep taking from you. Not saying anything but just saying.

Yep that is what I am talking about.

Get the Renishaw macros and there is a boss/hole routine that will do something like that. Also the Mazatrol has some very nice probing routines in it. What I have done is make Mazatrol programs to do probing and then do eia program to do the machining using the sub function in Mazatrol. HTH

Pip I may have 60000 entities in my solid layouts and no see the problems you are talking about. I did see some things in the early Beta of X 4 years ago, but we only use solid layout for our set-ups and it has been the best for us that it has ever been.

Why do people keep thinking this is a good idea? I was talking to someone at IMTS about this. Story goes like this. They are a R&D shop and do not care about cost. What do inspection on the machine with the machine. I asked why not use something like the Master3DGage to check parts and keep the machine running. I was told it is too expensive. So I then asked would 30 minutes be a fair amount of time a day to say for checking parts? He said yes. I then asked him how many machines they had with probes and that they wanted to check parts on he said 12. I then did a little math and said that comes up to 6 hours a day. He said he was not good with math, but told him I was so he agreed. Now I take it a step further and say what is the shop rate again R&D shop does not have one does not care about one. WOW is all I can first person I ever met where money is not object or even cared about. End of discussion. Let look at this and for those of us who do care about making money lets weigh the money involved here. Take 1 year with 52 weeks and 5 days a week. Now that comes up to 260 days a year of work. So with those 12 machines this company would be looking at 1560 hours of time not making chips by checking parts on those machines. Now at a $50/hr shop rate that would be $78k is lost production. At a real shop rate of $100/hr that is $156k in lost production. Oh, but what people always forget the 2 for 1 rule as I call it. For ever one hour you save on a job you gain 2 hours. So in reality that company lost 3120 hours of lost production because they were checking parts on machines. So the average work year is 2000 hours per machine and in this case that company would gain 1.5 machines worth of time for their shop or using the $100/hr shop rate $312k using something off line to check the parts and keep them cutting parts. Check parts on the machine all you want, but to many of you are not looking at the true cost of not using an external inspection system that will allow you to check parts as an integrated part of the manufacturing process, verses taking a hit to the manufacturing process doing on machine inspection in reality is. Just my cents worth on it.

Use the Free Hole axis tool at the top of the forum to create your lines and points for the 5 axis toolpath and done. HTH

Sure machine one half of it using the ring. Then put a ring on that half and finish machine the rest of it. HTH

Take what is close save it to a level then make it exactly what you need then you are good to go. HTH

Cuda try these guys and see if they have something to help. They have a 30 day trial of the software. Kisssoft HTH

Check your settings for the depth of thread. Remember that the rest of the settinga are absolute from your home position.

I would recommend you email John Summers he is the best person I can think of when it comes to gears.

After you uninstall the Verisurf do a repair install of X4. If you go to the Verisurf forum there is a tech tips that tells you how to get STL files when this installed. www.verisurf.com/forum HTH

John you are upset because a software company is trying to make money. You are getting a new machine to help production. Why get a new one why not go get a 25 year old machine to do the work of this new machine? Because you want to make money, but how dare your dealer and CNC software dare try to make some money too. You talked about Esprit having current yet Mastercam has older post that will work on that machine that installed more than likely with your V9 version. Companies are suppose to go out and make post for newer machines for software that came out 10 years ago. Get real and put the blame where it belongs and not companies doing what you are doing. Also when you were making all the deal you bother to call your Mastercam dealer and see what they said? Sounds like to me you put all your hopes on the Mori dealer and now it is the CNC software dealer or CNC software fault for you assumption. quote: I was assured by the Mori dealer there was going to be no problem getting a post for this machine. There is Mastercam logo's all over the Mori website. Oh and software in IMHO is like dog years every year things change with the hardware of computers that makes them age like dog years. V9 will not work on a 64 bit computer.