hey may^day i never tried that before but i will try it right now. thanks for your quick response. have a good day. marty

i have to draw around 300 tap holes in a 38.0 by 90.0 plate. the holes will be equaly spaced so i don't have a problem there. my question is this, i drew my first row of holes, now is there a way i can duplicate the row i drew instead of having to draw all 300 holes? there is 10 holes in each line x 30 lines. again i thank you in advance. marty

hey i'm 51 my prostate isn't swollen yet lol. sheesh what did i miss here. let's lighten up.the meteor is going to hit us. marty

midnight oil i worked on the floor for many years. just started master cam about 9 months back. i knew how to program on the floor so when i came upstairs it was still like wow this is unreal. but any question you have this is the place to get answers. so welcome aboard. marty

hourly here to. overtime after 40. we work a 55 hr week. have been on 40 for 3 months now not good for the bank account. but things are picking up. my perks are i can pretty much leave when i want and at this place i could come in in the morning and ask for the rest of the week off if i had to. i guess after 22 years here they learned to trust me. thats what i like about this place. i have turned down better offers for the little perks at this place. marty

don't know a whole lot, i can,t help a whole lot, but thanks for being there marty

+1 millman marty

well the last long weekend is here. what's everyone planing on doing. sat. we will be on the pontoon boat fishing and tubing with my daughter and grand kids, cooking up some spicy chicken and burgers washing it down with some cold bud light. sunday will be more of the same. monday i rest if you call cutting the grass and weed wipping resting. so i want to say to everyone have a great weekend and enjoy yourselves. marty

like looking in the mirror rekd my dad used to live in the bars and would hit on anything in sight. then he would come home all smashed and wake us up at 3 in the morning and tell us he has a hamburger for us. uh ok dad then he would go in his bedroom and beat my mom and scream, as soon as the last kid is 18 i'm gone. well thats probably the only time he kept his word. i don't know what happened to him. sheesh now i want a bud light.can you say end of thread now marty

to all you guys who quit while your ahead. i lost my brother to that when he was 30 and 6 years later i lost my mother to this drinkung disease. so i'm glad to here that you all are trying and have quit. me well i still like my bud light. and unless i get a serios disease i will still like my bud light.sorry for the morbid crap guys but i really do think it's great that yuo are trying, iv'e seen people not try and now don't work and some are on the street. no cheers this time marty

refering to your die shoes. i would use your handling holes like you do, and if there not in, i would put them in on the radial drill and then mill them. afer all is said and done i would total all your hours and estimate what it cost them for you to do this, and then compare what it would cost to have them blanchard ground before they come in. it's worth a shot. have a good day bud marty

hey there thad tecnomagnete the same one's that hardmill said. i went down to make sure,but even though they work really good they come with a big price. you can have them come out. they will let you use a demo for a while to see how you like it. i hope this helps you out a little. have a good day bud marty

thad i just checked out hardmill's mags. we use them here now, they work pretty sweet. if you want i can find out all the information for you, but you probably already have. but they do work really good. have a good day. marty

no lights here they went out thursday at 4:00 pm. went and bought alot of beer an ice and was ready to go. we still had water so it wasn't that bad just a little hot. friends came over friday and power came on fiday at around 6:00 pm. by that time all my beer was gone. the ice was still good so off to the store. marty

wow i get to be first,well i statrted in 1973 and i worked in 3 shops. the longest is now 22 years at this shop. marty

well i'm profiling big castings with these #%$&(&^% flats on them and there driving me batty. other than that every thing is peachy. marty

scott can you use a contour program with a dyna shear cutter with no comp, if the hole isn't fussy. marty

millman when i said forget about getting help here i was talking about here at my work. i'm the only one who does mastercam here and there is really no help. sorry for the misunderstanding. marty

i want thank every one for the repls i will try these out this morning as soon as i wake up. marty

good morning all i asked this question a while ago. i'm having trouble with converting these (i call them flats). i have tried converting these lines every way the help said but they still stay flats. these are unigraphic or ug files.i posted a file called marty's flats (i finally figured out how to do this) in the mc8 files, this detail is being done in v8.1.1. the profile i want to mill is in red. notice that a straight line will be little short lines instead of one long good line. notice how the arcs are like little flats instead of a nice smooth arc. forget about getting any help here i'm always told that's the way it is, and seeing i,m still new at this well i'm sorta on my own. sooooooooooooo as always i thank you all for the help and every one have a good day. marty

thad ok thad i'm starting to get this but it still isn't climb cutting. marty rather be bass fishing

thad i'll try that. i'm trying to miirow my part like you had but with no luck. help wasn.t to clear for me. some thing about the parameters. marty

hi thad i see what you mean now, i'm going to play with that today since i'm not real busy.thanks for the info. marty

hey there thad i pulled your file and looked at it. i then reversed chain and it looked to be fine. am i not seeing something here or am i just an idiot. marty

Budgie i'm curious. what rpm and how deep a cut do you take with that small of em? marty