Add my name please. I teach at a vocational high school in eastern CT. 13 MC seate, a Southwestern Industries DPM mill, SWI lathe and a bunch of SWI Trak retorfit Bridgeports. http://newenglandmodelengineeringsociety.o..._Pictures/1.htm shows some of the projects we have been making this year, mostly with freshmen exploratory students.

Does anyone have a MC9, DXF, IGES, or DWG format map of the U.S. they could send to me? It would be much appreciated!

Thanks for yhe suggestions. I will be trying them this evening. Since I use a 19" monitor at home I don't think that the "turn it over" suggestion is too practical. Thanks anyway. Since we are a state system we move at the pace of the state of CT. And that is generally at least two versions behind. I have am educators copy of MC at home but see no point to upgrading since that would leave me with 7.2 at school and 9. at home. Not a good situation. When you read in the papers about all the $$$$ that is being devoted to educaton don't believe everyting yho read. The cash may be going somewhere but not into the shops of the vo-tech system. OTOH, we have gotten some new TRAK retro fits for our B'Ports and the new lahe in the past two years so it probably isn't as bad as I make it out to be. It just coud be better. I spent yesterday at Eastech and ran into two of my students from my tenure at Wilcox Tech in Meriden. Nice to see two young fellows staying with the trade.

We have a Southwest Industries TRAK lathe. I have figured out how to get my tool path to represent the bottom turret configuration but haven't been able to figure out how "flip" the tools over to bottom config. Is there a way to flip the tools or do I have to go through and redraw and resave the tools. We are using Lathe 7.2. Thanks.

Could some one please send me a post for the Fanuc 6L. We have a Southwest Industrier Trak lathe and tis is the post that whould allow me to post from MasterCam for the machine. Thank you. Errol Groff Instructor, Machine Tool Department H.H. Ellis Technical School 613 Upper Maple Street Danielson, CT 06329 860 774 8511 Home Page http://pages.cthome.net/errol.groff/ Web Master: http://newenglandmodelengineeringsociety.org/