Q: Why don't they replay the video and news commentary of that tragic day on network TV the whole week to remind our country that THERE ARE people out there who's only desire is to do us harm and murder the children, women and men of our country NO MATTER WHAT HOW GOOD OUR STATED INTENTIONS ARE. They want us all dead - it's that simple. No negotiations, no reasoning, no peace agreements will bring them around. Would it be too upsetting to relive this attack? Would the Libs try to spin the replay as W trying to garner more support for the war? AND THERE IS A WAR GOING ON YOU KNOW. Screw the finding of WMD. Screw France & Germany. They don't have the forsight, mettle or courage to pursue a free Middle East. A functioning, prospering & democratic Iraq would be the terrorists and regional dictators (read IRAN) worst nightmare. Should we succeed history will show that this was a major watershed event in world politics. GO W.

How do you quote a job from a solid? You need dimensions and TOLERANCES. How does the world run?

quote: This kind of reminds me of the Moldbase option Mastercam used to offer up to Version 6 Yup - and Production Pro. Maybe a copyright infringement on Mastercam technology?

Geez - try the decaf. Personally, I find the names amusing. And I'm not gonna stop. Others may also get a chuckle out of them to otherwise brighten up their day while they smell machine oil and mold release and try to carry on a conversation over the machine noise. Others may not. This ain't church. Are you from the USA? Just like the TV, if you don't like it, turn it off. Adhering to your personal code of conduct just ain't gonna happen.

Grow up? Hmm. The thanks you get (especially considering "Wood" is my last name). You won't have to worry about that again.

There's a few tricks to do what you want. The one I prefer requires you to have your center drill, drill & reamer operations already saved in a library and goes like this: METHOD #1 1 - Start a drill operation and pick your points. 2 - On the first page of the drill parameters, right click in the tool list pane. Select Get operations from library... 3 - Select your center drilling, drilling, reaming, etc operations from the library and hit OK. 4 - Say NO to the Import/add the operation groups also? question. 5 - Say NO to the Retain depth values of merged points? question. Unknown the the user (that's you), the system has now created a new operation for each operation you selected to import and they all share the same points. 6 - Select the OK button (without having to fill in any other parameters). 7 - Say NO to the Create the current operation in addition to the ones you have imported? question. *** You now have operations that all share the same points. This is very powerful as you can execute this method and share geometry on ANY type (drill, msurf, etc) of existing operation at any time and import any operation from any library or other Mastercam MC9 file. *** METHOD #2 1 - Create your first drilling operation (let's say it's the center drilling one) like you usually would. 2 - Create your next drilling operation, but instead of select point geometry, select the Subpgm ops option. 3 - Select the center drilling operation that you created in step #1 from the list and hit OK . 4 - Fill in your parameters like normal and hit OK . *** Your second operation is now associated and shares the same points as the first operation. Change/delete a point in the first operation and regenerate and the second operation will regenerate also. *** METHOD #3 1 - In the operation manager, create a new operation group (or use an empty one that contains no operations). 2 - Import your center drill, drill & reamer operations from your library into this new group. 3 - Edit the geometry for the first operation and add your points. Select OK . 4 - In the operation manager drag the points from the geometry branch of the first operation to the group name. Select the Replace option. *** This deletes all the geometry from all the operations in the group (which there was none in all but the first operation anyway) and stuffs in the points from the first operation. ***

I find it's a lot better with less bugs since the latest release. Wouldn't want to program without it.

Absolute or Incremental ?

Select the 'geometry" branch of the drill operation in the operation manager, then select "rstr depth", select the 1st point and say "yes" to the "apply change to subsequent planar points". The same would work for "restr jump". Somehow all your drill points were marked as "edited" when you copied them. Maybe thats what the "retain depths?" question is for.

My head hurts

quote: Here, in this high tech manufacturing company that hates manufacturing, you just need a little blue collar residue on you to be untouchable. They're threatened by your intimate knowledge of how things really work and what's required to get things done. Might make them look like the inexperienced idiots they are. It's a lot easier to tell someone to "just handle it" and not give them detailed instructions how to. I once started a new job in a mold shop as a engineering manager. The new boss (the plant manager) was a screamer. The more he didn't know the louder he screamed. Chewed his gum at the rate of 10 chews per second. Demanded delivery dates for work that you haven't even seen yet. You know the type. He made the mistake of screaming at me in a meeting one day in front of others as one of the guys working for me made an error on a print. My immediate reaction that I wanted to respond with was to go over the desk and twist his !#!#! head off or at least yell back at the idiot. But this being a new job and having a wife and kids at home depending on me I didn't. I unrolled the print and simply asked "So, EXACTLY what would you have done different?". A hush fell over the room. He sat there staring at an E sized print with slides, early returns and dimensions all over the place and all of us staring at him in silence waiting for his answer. He obviously had never drawn a line in his life. His muffled reply "Well, that's your job. Make sure you take care of it. Let's move on to the next item". Umm, yeah. Thought so. D*ckweed. He was gone about 9 months later.

Tongue piercing - what is the point? Makes you talk odd, chips the enamel off the inside of your front teeth, and makes people think either "What the hell was this guy thinking?" or "Is he going to rob me?" Okay - come on boys. How many of you men got a tattoo because of some sweet talkin' girl?

quote: listen to that rock musicLike Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold"? Yeah, I remember (but it's kinda foggy...) I had a tattoo once. I had it cut off (excised) by a plastic surgeon so my kids wouldn't think I was some kind of doped up freak when I was a kid (and then throw it in my face later in their teen years). Cost me $1,000 and three seperate trips to the doc (and it hurt). Cut out the middle, sew it shut. Skin stretches over the course of a few weeks. Cut out the middle, sew it shut. Etc.

Hey PMGuy - how many programmers are going to be assigned to create this new and improved operation manager? If it's only 1, is this person mentally stable enough to handle all of us?