I went with the curve 5 axis toolpath. It gave me everything I was looking for. Thank you for all the help guys!

I think I found the bad spline you were speaking of. I blended it with blended spline. How did you create the points? and how did you get it to sync by point? i dont see that option. Were you using the old or the new swarf? Thank you for your help!

I am having a hard time getting a smooth 5 axis swarf cut around the profile in the attached file. Everything looks pretty good except when the cutter comes around the end opposite of the origin it wants to tilt over further than I would like. I am looking for a nice smooth toolpath. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you 149A7593_TEST.mcx-9

Yea reko the surfaces came in missing when i imported it. Must have been a dirty file. I would need to take the time to clean it up which I am lacking at the moment

Thanks for the replies! Now I am thinking this part is better suited for our lathe shop on the mill turn. I was more or less curious to see if it was an easy task on the indexer but it sounds like it may not be. I see what you are saying here. Wouldnt you need to do a 3d contour or something to hit that little radius all the way around the bottom? And wouldnt you need to use a ball endmill? Thanks for the advice

So we have this part that we need to do on our haas indexer that is mounted on our fadal 3 axis vmc. i just wanted to get some ideas from you guys on how I should approach the cut outs on the part. I have done somewhat similar things on a mill turn with the c axis contour but on the milling side I have not done anything like this. the part is 6061-t651 aluminum i appreciate any input. thank you 4th axis sim.mcx-9

I have had similar issues with this but in the X9 beta. It processed really slow when deleting geometry but it was only when the plane manager was open. It seems to be much better with the public release

Take a look at your tool settings in the tool setup parameters. It appears they aren't setup for your intended use because the icon in the direction dialog box shows your tool facing on the bottom of your axis.

i have the same settings that you have there. It is working correctly now. This was the first time I have ever ran across this issue. I appreciate the help

And yes I do have X7, maybe it is time for an upgrade also

I do need to take a look at the post and see what I can do. When I came in this morning it was working properly so maybe I just needed to re start my computer. Thanks for the advice

I am using Cimco edit version 5. i have a weird problem that just started happening. When I highlight code and click on it then go to drag it to a different location it deletes the highlighted code that I was trying to drag. It does this when I release the mouse button to put it where I want it. I am constantly doing this to move coolant and tool staging around. This is the first time I have ever ran into this problem. Anyone have any ideas what could be happening? Thanks in advance

Yea that would be great. I attached the zip2go file and the tap is the very last operation in the file. Thank you for the help O551V22.Z2G

We have an okuma lathe here and I just use templates with manual entry. The code that I use looks like this N600 G13(T1010 1/8-27 N.P.T TAP) N602 G97 S477 M03 M42 P0070 N604 G0 G90 G95 X0. Z.1 T1010 M08 N606 G1 Z-.4 F.037 N608 M5 N610 G1 Z.1 F.037 M4 S239 N612 M09 N614 G0 X30.0 Z30.0 N616 M02 P1000 It is an osp7000 control and we use a floating tap holder

Selecting the default overlap at 10 degrees seemed to work also. Thanks for the help guys