All of my routers and subs are after the M30 code but you can't see any difference on the machine.

We keep our programs on a server that lives in the IT department. Each machine has a computer with a pre-mapped folder to pull programs from. The software we use to load the programs is WS_FTP Professional-Ipswitch. I think we paid $40 for each install.

I'm glad to hear you're running internal subs. Just the reduced time in programming multiple parts pays for itself.

The week after Thanksgiving I'll be training to program and run a Okuma MA-8000H horizontal. That will bring me to 10 HMC's, 1mill-turn and training for our second mill-turn.

Jake

What kind of fixtures are you using?

We're running the main program and the subs directly from the Data Server with no issues. (Fanuc 16i)

It appears that ± isn't in the post. I'm sure I would have tried it in my inspection program. "DPRNT[***DISTANCE*", *drl_prm7$, [if drl_prm6$, "*TOL*+/-*", <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< *drl_prm6$], "***]", e$ ********************************PRINT*********************************** spaces$ = 0 "POPEN", e$ if s_popen_flg = 0, [ s_popen, e$ s_popen_flg = 1 ] "DPRNT[]", e$ "DPRNT[-----------------------------------------------------------]", e$ "DPRNT[***", s_sav_comment , "***]", e$ "DPRNT[***DISTANCE*", *drl_prm7$, [if drl_prm6$, "*TOL*+/-*", <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< *drl_prm6$], "***]", e$ "DPRNT[***RESULTS***DISTANCE*#138[24]***]", e$ "DPRNT[-----------------------------------------------------------]", e$ "DPRNT[]", e$ # "PCLOS", e$ spaces$ = sav_spc # ************************************************************************

Precision Components now makes dual contact holders. I have two 1/2" X 9" long CAT50 DC holders coming in.

Just like all things in life, you get out what you put in. If you go through the work for one tool and you use it ten times in one year then nine of those times you just added a tool in a few seconds. With every tool you add you become that much more efficient. Right now (after around 17 years) I might add 5 tools a month and they are usually tools from another material that will need speeds, feeds and pecks or no pecks changes if it's a drill.

Here's my tool library list. The aluminum folder has over 1100 tools.

Keep working them crazy^millman. You catch more bugs than anyone else and we appreciate it.

Is Force always on or can you use it intermittently throughout the program file? Does it work with drilling?

To save what you modified is add a Manual Entry under your tool path, copy your modified tool path into the Manual Entry then turn the Manual Entry off (ghost it out). If you have to regenerate the path your modification is still there to load it back in.

I'm hoping it will help them. They're currently running a similar prototype part and are having a bad time with it and the programmer has been sick for the last couple days.