I talked to CParish and apperently we were both talking about two different things. So all you guys out there who think I'm a Chris hater I'm not, I love him. He is looking into the issue, he's on it.

I really like Mastercam just looking to fine tune it. Shawn hope you like your new setup guy.

Ok so it seems I'm not the only one who can't get it to work properly. Like I said earlier I refuse to lie to it, to get it to do what it should. This should be submitted to QC. Feel free to submit it to QC. I will too. Shawn you've got it right, why are we the only who seem to care?

Let me know first thing, thanks.

So John, Does it rapid to your set (absolute) feed plane or is it ignoring it and using your retract value?

So John,

Moldmaker74, I would be so willing to eat more than just my words if this problem would just get solved. This is not operator error. So if anyone knows of a patch or some kind of fix for this please let me know.

If you were to add depth of cuts that wouldn't work because your telling it that you only have .001 stock thickness. I shouldn't have to tell it I'm doing something that I'm not to accomplish a given task. I want an absolute retract of .25 and an absolute feed plane of Z-1.25 also an absolute depth of Z-1.25 With .25 rapid step downs. The point is, is that V9 works like it's suppose to, even the version X demo works like it's suppose to, but not the X2 MR2 that we payed good money for. Is there a glitch maybe? I feel like I'm getting the run around from our reseller.

The your settings for your sample program must have been something like this. Retract .25 Feed plane -1.249 Top of stock *** Z depth -1.25 If thats the case then yes thats exactly what I'm trying to do, however my feed plane is being ignored and it wants to feed from my set retract point. But when I'm useing contour it works like it's suppose to. HELP!

G1 Z-.5 <---- What Im getting Z-.5 <---- What I want

I'm not using a clearance just retract.

I'm using X2 MR2 mill level 1 with the MPMASTER post which I updated with X2. I've just recently switched from V9 and I've been using mastercam for about ten years. The problem I'm having is that whenever I try to use any circle toolpaths it ignores my set feed plane and instead uses the retract plane. Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a fix?

OK I will try them this week.

How bout Mazak? Are they any better?

ya me too BigRed I've tried most of those brands and they just don't cut like a ARF series dataflute.