I thought about having him show me how, but its nearly impossible to get him to get out of bed before lunch. I'll tell you what, if you wanna come in at a decent hour there shawnald, I'd be more than happy to learn! see you tomorow And text follows the 11.4" outer diameter so it does need to be rolled, I should have just posted a pic, I think my initial explanation was lacking clarity. thanks for the help everyone

ahhh its the roll command, der Thanks alot, easy money from here

Mill with 4 axis, and the text is on a flat surface.

I need to engrave a fairly long string of text on the outside of a 11.4" ring. There is a .15 flat on the OD and I need to put .125 characters on it. I'm having dificulty getting the text to wrap around the outer edge, and cant for the life of me figure it out. I've tried creating the ring as a surface and projecting the text onto the surface, but the text end up distorted around the outer edges. I cant find anywhere in the creat a text command an option for producing the text already to the shape either. I'm sure its a fairly simple task, just one I have yet to tackle. Any help is appreciated. Ryan

whew I thought I was gonna get really roasted on this one Thanks for takin it easy on the noob lol I did notice graphic problems with some of the solids and surface stuff but I thought it was my junky vid card I've got. And while I'm working on it I'm definately not into anything super advanced, so I can understand why alot of you are frustrated with the vista push. Anyways, hopefully we'll all see a happy ending to the whole scenario.

I dont think thats a fair statement. As any other company would, they arent interested in continuing to support and or sell an obsolete product. The largest PC maker is in fact trying to dictate what operating system microsoft has to continue to produce. Like I said in my first statement I dont really understand why Vista got a bad rap. There was a pretty good jump as far as the hardware required to use it, but with the computer hardware market being what it is it really isnt any huge expense to bring your pc up to date. Lets take a look at machining, does MA Ford or Destiny continue to produce the same end mills that they started out making? No they dont, because they have a better product. They spend more money on equipment and such to make it and in turn you pay more for thier products, but in the end everyone benefits from it. And you buy a new vf-2 to use them rather than using your 20 year old vf-2 because your old junker is slow. Do you hate Destiny for making new end mills? I find most people dont see the value in computers and dont want to pay anything for it, and so you get people hating microsoft for using the same practices any other company would. Anyways, thats my 2 cents. Hopefully I dont get flamed to hard for defending microsoft lol

I've had my computer running vista ultimate for just over a year now and I absolutely love it. Its very stable and I have yet to find any applications that dont work after a bit of tinkering, and most work great straight out of the box. I just installed X2 a week and a half ago without any kind of clean install, my wife and kids use this computer, and it works great. I'm not sure why Vista got the rap it did, but I'd recomend it to anybody with a decent computer. If your not sure about your hardware performance, microsoft does have a application that rates your computers performance for using Vista.

1st post on the forum I got 10:07 on my home computer, thats not super accurate I was to lazy to find an app for timing it so I used my microwave lol so I'll say 10ish minutes -DFI LANPARTY UT NF590 SLI-M2R/G Motherboard -AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Windsor 2.4GHz Dual Core 512KB x2 L2 Cache -CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) -CHAINTECH GAE79GS-A1 GeForce 7900GS 256MB PCIe x16 Vid card -CORSAIR 620W Power Supply -Western Digital 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive Thermaltake water cooling CPU kit Vista Ultimate 32bit Total price in 3/07 - $1,091 I'm about to order the Black Edition (unlocked multiplier) Athlon X2 6400+ 3.2GHz so I'll post a new time when I get it. Using the perfmon app in vista it looks like my CPU is the bottle neck at this point, so hopefully this will help alot. I'll find a real timer too