Ken, I am a religious user of Verify, and I have avoided X7 because it needs to be very accurate. I have sent in some simple contouring parts that I cannot trust in this verify. I spoke to mike today and he agrees that he sees the same problem I cannot rely on X7 until this is fixed I will have to rely on V6 Greatest Regards Tony G

Hello i have reverted back to the old perpendicular entry to the first cut move using wear (g41) machine makes part fine with no value in cutter comp register when a minus value is entered to cutter comp the graphic loses the rapid motion and locks to a z.25 rapid point regardless of any z minus g01 motion when a zero value is entered to cutter comp the machine runs fine I need the rule or method for g41 lead in to utilize cutter comp for bridgeport 800c w/ DX32 control (circa 1998) I never though a FADAL would ever get off the bottom of the barrel!!! Larry G Tony G Still almost employed CNC Process Engineer

Good Day Try to find work just programming from bedroom,,, and call it a business Works for me Mastercam is my Video Game Its fun,,,, and i get paid to "DO IT" Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Prog rammer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day Make sure that the axis of rotation (plane) is correct for profile you are looking for Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Prog rammer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day I remember using this....but you would not know how to use it for its funtion name "analyze contour" to list points. Thanks again Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Prog rammer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day I really need points and I dont think it does those. Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Prog rammer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day I though there was a way to save analyze point,line, arc data to a text file in earlier MC versions....is this feature gone Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Prog rammer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good day, I believe using this method, no matter how many multi or depth passes, there is only 1 enter and 1 exit. So you have to be careful because, there is more plunging going on. Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good day, Keeping the CC on in between operations is not recommended. specially if work shift Z zeros have large diffs (values) Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good day, Have you tried "enter/exit on first/last depth cut only" in lead in/out It gives you only one G41/G40 per operation Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

G day, I had trouble when I manual over wrote the MTB from the back-up folder into the new install and I didnt get my toolbar from X2. Should I have selected "no" for making a back-up folder to preserve my X2 settings? Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

G day, The Browse option, For replace current ver.(mcamx2), seemed to be after selecting the backup dir Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good day, It says in the X3 installation guide "If your installing X3 in the same directory as your current X2 installation(replacing your current X2 installation) Replacing....sounds like overwrite or do I need to uninstall X2 first then use the same folder to keep any X2 customized files. AS stated in the X3 installation guide on page 9 under "Migrating manually" Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good day, 17605 min_speed #Minimum spindle speed 17606 max_speed #Maximum spindle speed That fixed it for me Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day I am trying to load the STL and its very slow And then I will try to save as something?? Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Prog rammer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day When opened in solidworks the feature properties decription shows as : STL Graphics1 When saved as a sldprt and attempt to open mastercam, I get the error : no solid data in sldprt Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Prog rammer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day Can I create a solid from a STL?? Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Prog rammer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good day, Thats a good 1....I am always looking for cycle times. Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good day, Program numbers are kind of specific....what number would you start with,,,1 ?? Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good day, Im not sure if it is configurable, but, I think it is only associative if you select a point. Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good day Do you mean ----hy·poc·ri·sy What I say IS what I believe... and the terms "laid back" and "Machine shop" dont go together. Tony G ( hard@$$ ) CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, And you guys wonder why manufacturing in the USA is in trouble. Even this discussion about letting machine personel read anything but drawings, work orders, inspection sheets or criteria related to work is not good. Our operators have been trained to use cells to keep busy, the activity they use is not reading but constructive machine operations that challenge them to learn and become better machinist. challenge::: 2. something that by its nature or character serves as a call to battle, contest, special effort, etc.: The American worker, not only in manufacturing, IS LAZY...and most come to work to forget what they are doing for 8 hours. Our shop forman spends more than half the day reminding people what they are working on, and have heard people joking about it. In my "not so" humble opinion - Perseverance made this country great... Perseverance::: 1. steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., esp. in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement. Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, Also ask re-seller for a demo for home I dont know how student ver works but demo works almost anywhere Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, I think it works OK using angle or depth the plunge is only plunging on climb cut...the return is convential cut and is not plunging. If you uncheck one way ramping.... it will plunge on the return also,,, which is two way ramping the ramping is one way, not the return HTH Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, Thad What is the "AI utility" ???? Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------