i used a shadow graph to reverse engineer the shape and drew a custom profile tool

double click the blue s icon in the chain manager to get a dropdown to get the individual chains

the Firepro for sure, google them, i have a 6800 at home not a bad card tho

update, i was working on a different old file this week updating some of the toolpaths to better methods, and was having graphics issues with points and face selection, i checked out the groups and it had the same deal with all the groups looking like that picture, it did say different things, but it did have "+++++++" all over the place, so i deleted them all, after that it was trouble free after deleting them, probably had the file open for a collective 10hours or so and didnt have anymore selection issues

if its a vertical haas , could be you have residual oil and compacted chips like a brick under the waycovers and your not getting all the bacteria out and its getting back in thru that drain tube that comes out from the back of the saddle

gonna throw this out there, i noticed something strange this morning, in the pic you see that there are groups named , i dont use this function, and i went thru a few files that i remember that were troublesome and they all have named groups that i didn't create, so i'm gonna delete them and then see if the problem comes back or not

i never knew about the right clicking thats awesome stuff!!!

hey man heres my settings for and optirest path, i believe this gives you the least amount of posted code as far as the line/arc to cut ratio ,increasing the total tolerance will reduce the amount of code as well

had the point selection crap out 2x this morning and regen display worked both times, again thank you!!

thanks for the tip dude!, i dont think i tried that one, i tried ram saver too, but definitely going to give regen display list a shot,(fingers crossed) LOL ,, Im going to start working on said part again tomorrow so hopefully it works like a champ for me too!!

no kidding had the exact problem ive had the problem pop up a couple times on this particular solid i was programming about 2 weeks ago and it was frustrating the heck out of me!, I've since not completed the program for it because of other priorities, but i couldn't figure it out, i haven't had a single problem with mc doing that since i haven't been working on that part, now the only thing thats really different for what ive been programming since, is that model has two areas that get splined and they're drawn on the model. we make a line of tools that are a scaled up/down in size and the one part we call the housing no matter what size will typically give me issues to some degree, such as optirest making some odd moves when the step over is set below a certain figure and the point selection issue, i have had some other ones that i cant think of right now i always thought i had something to do with an ati graphics card (got em at work and home), since i've read so many posts about the random nature of ati and how nvidia is the trouble free card to use im definitely going to send that file in to qc monday, also referencing this post, ive been busy as poop lately getting programs, setting up and maintenance hopefully we can get it figured out because its annoying and unproductive having to restart my computer to be able to pick a solid point

u could try the undefined tool type, and draw the exact profile of the tool, but im not sure about the undefined type working with all the surfacing paths

dang! cjep that reminds me of a place i worked at as a setup operator, and there was this small open bed style mill in the shop that always had tons of oil dry all around the front and i finally figured out why, it was because the day guy would chew cut tobacco and spit it in the oil dry!! NASTY!! but our ethic on the keeping the machines area clean is this, if anybody has time to bs talk or play with the cell phone they have time to clean up, this includes all employees, we bring current and potential customers in the shop so its gotta look impressive same thing goes with inside the machine, i put valves (its not that hard to do and its relatively inexpensive)on all the machines flood coolant pumps so they can shut the flood off to the spindle and hose the inside off, and be sure to caution operators not to use air guns or you'll end up with chips jammed in places they shouldn't be or piled up under the waycovers

Chris heres what you gotta do, right click in the blank toolbar space, the areas that you can do this are the light blue color on my screen, it will not open that window up if you are not in a blank toolbar space area, after you do, click on shading, then this will pop up somewhere on the screen, the 3 circled are the ones that control the look of the wireframe display on solids and fyi, you could also drag that shading toolbar into a blank space area and you can also save it so you always have it there if you wish hth br

hey man do you mean like this?, its in the shading toolbar after i posted this i thought you might be talking about having wireframe geometry display like that and the answer is i dont think so