Your right Hertz, So I guess there is no real reason to stick with IPM......thanks for all the feed back people

I don't think Alan Copp's statrement is correct at all . , but Hertz, you answered my question, that is a pro, we all know that unless you have a ridged set up and and the cutters are stuck out to a minumum you can't get optimal use of your cutter, so having it in ipr, you can regulate both your speed and feed seperatly. where in ipr it is always the same, this allows the machinist to adjust both to make up for an inconsistant setup...............thanks people.....forgive the spelling

I've been programming for over 25 years myself and have only used G95 for tapping occasionally or on a lathe but when asked why, i could not think of a reason. I know it must be done that way for a reason, there are pros for ipr on a mill, just can't think of a con...

nothing huh?

Can anybody tell me if there are any pros and cons to programming in inches per minute or programming in iches per rev. I had somebody break an endmill because they turned down the spindle overide and of course the feed stayed the same....please let me know if there is a any reason i should not start to program im IPR....ty

Does any body know if xxxxor Controls take standard fanuc G code?

is ther a way to convert a tif file into anything mastercam can read?

I am currently using ver 9.1 mr0105 and have been wanting to make the move to X, and we have it, but it's X mr-1, and as usual the company decided to drop our maintenance agreement, I've heard about a lot of bugs in our ver of X, my question is, should I change if the company is not going to renew it maintenance agreement and i'm stuck with X mr-1? and how many updates have there been since mr-1?