You need to go to screen, configure and change this setting. Under the screen tab turn off display part information. [This message has been edited by Allan (edited 08-08-2000).]

This is what Cimco, the developers have to say. No, you can not disable the escape key in the current version, but I have changed the behaviour of the escape key so it no longer inserts a character 27 (ESCAPE). This "fix" is included in the next service release (4.10.17). We expect to release 4.10.17 within a week. Best regards Tom Mortensen CIMCO Integration - Development I Guess we will have to wait for that next release.

Looks a bit buggy, What I do is have shortcuts to the machine directory/drive in my c:mcam8millnc directory then you can pick from there one click is better than 5 or 10.

The purpose of this program is to take a 3-dimensional non-planar surface and produce a planar surface from it. The mapping algorithm to do so uses a "spine with ribs" approach of stepping in constant u or v, preserving the segment length along the backbone, and preserving the segment length along each rib. The input is a surface entity in the Mastercam database. The user can toggle the backbone spine direction. The output is a planar parametric surface. FLATTENING MENU: Surface Flattening: Surface use this to select a surface with the mouse Spine div number of spine points to go into the parametric surf Rib div number of rib points to go into the parametric surf Subdivide number of subdivisions for stepping for accuracy Analy srf lengths of the middle flowlines, area of surface Flatten Execute flattening with surface and parameters set To run, create surface(s) to flatten. Set the spine divisions, rib divisions, subdivisions (to refine stepping along ribs), and then select "Flatten." Menu will come up with a toggling arrow to select the direction for the spine to go in. If the spline is in the wrong direction, select "Flip". Select "OK" to procede to do the flattening, creating the surface. The flattened surface will always be created in the top view, at z = 0 Note: This C-Hook Will only work with an untrimmed surface! [This message has been edited by Allan (edited 06-30-2000).]