If I ever meet Keith I will buy him a beer. I appriciate that he took a second to point out my error so I can LEARN which is the whole point of being on these forums. I have no issues with someone giving me a hard time if I make a mistake or do something stupid as long as it is followed with something constructive. You sir were just making fun of me and that is so 90's. Also this site has an awesome multiquote feature in the lower Right of the posts you may in the future find this usefull END RANT..

When the clearance plane is reached the Z axis retracts the tool by the value of the W measured from the work surface.

Ok OP was not looking for ARC length, Im sorry I miss understood the question. Thank you for being helpful

Am I missing something or are you messing with me??

Super easy, Draw a 14.5 diameter circle on the origin. analyze it, change the cirumfrence in the 3d field to 2.00

I know, I just got them to let me get rid of my CRT another computer is not gonna happen. Does not work Does not work The screen statistics show all the lines, tools, and operations but the screen is blank until I rerun backplot and escape out before it finishes.

X5 never did it, must be my computer I have tons of issues with solids but not usaully with lines and arcs.

ATI Radeon X300/X500/X1050 Series

Has anyone else had this happen? If I run my backplot all the way thru I lose the ability to see my geometry. The only way I can make it reappear is to start backploting again and escape out. Im running 32bit

Sorry I have No solution for the OP's question. I would however like to Thank You because I never knew I could change all parameters like that. I believe this could change my life LOL. I tried it right away super slick I'm stoked..

I want to try that FPT out so this will be a good excuse.

If you can get X4 or up it has a dynamic gnomon which I find much easier to use.

Its nothing real fancy just lettering wrapped around a 4" diameter. Roll worked perfect but there is still a bunch of code; I got 2 samples finished today, but I would still like to know how to reduce the amount of code. Its the #1 complaint I get from the shop floor and its understandable.

I got it down to 58 splines but the code is still nutz. Are you talking about project tool path? I only have level 2 mill and level 1 lathe :-(