I just re-create them in vericut. It doesn't take that long once you've got a library set up, and also, if I've made a mistake on a tool lengt or something, It gives me a second chance to catch it.

So, I had been using X5MU1, and had been leary of X6 with all it's issues when it was released, and mainly because of the lack of backward compatability. I've been using X6MU1 for 6 mo or so now, bacause I really like Opti core and Opti rest. I ran into a couple problems this week I've never encountered before. I was drawing up a solid for a new part. As I draw, I'll save my file every few minuites or so, as you never know when MC is going to crash. I had this model about 2/3 done when the solid just disappeared. WTF? I looked at my solid tree and there were about 14 operations with ?" and the rest had red X. So I reloaded my last saved file, and it was the same. ##$%^#@!!! I tried to regen and all I got was an endless barage of warning pop ups. Then I look, and about 1/2 of my geometry was gone. WTF. No rhyme or reason to it either. Some chains were completely gone, some only pieces were gone. Different layer, different colors, different planes. There's no way I deleted them by accident because the layers they were on were all turned off. I never got any warnings. When I did my last save, I never got any warnings that I had dirty solids. So I spent a few hours getting all this straightened out, finished the complete model, saved it, everything was good. Next day, I go to load in the file, and I get an error, some BS about regenerating blah blsh blah. I look at my model, and the geomerty for one hole was gone. Anybody ever seen this? The mdel is good, I save it, then it comes back bad. And, don't get me started on how many times I crashed running toolpaths. I never had any problems like this with V6 though X5. Should I install MU2, or uninstall X6?

You can buy an unfinished reamer, and grind it to whatever size you want

if this is a double lead thread, just take an 11 pitch tm and grind off every other tooth

I was just making some chages to a few year old program with about 250 operations. I got to thinking that it would be nice if the operation numbers were posted as a comment in the g-code. Is there a way to do this?

You can also hit "analyze entity" select the circle, and change it's size, location, etc. Then regen

Same here. Repeatability is less than .0002. But you need to set it up dead parallel. Three of our newer ones are wireless,which is really nice not having any cable.

It depends on what view the stock model was created in. If you create rectagular stock for op 1, then create a stock model for op 2 by saving the cut stock as an sTL, if you save the STL while in WCS of OP 1, then you'll be chasing your tail all day trying to get the stock toline up with your model. In X6 using the stock model toolpath, I haven't run into that, But if you always save your stock models in TOP view, it always works.

I just did a part where I has to surface the underside of a flange with a full radius keycutter. I tried different toopaths, and had the best luck using morph between curves set to 3 axis.

+1 That's what I do.

Thanks. That looks like just what I need

Anybody use a reverse counterbore that is both practical and reliable? I use the regulat kind on a bridgeport all the time, but I have an application with a complex casting where I want to do it on a 4 axis mill. Years ago we bought a couple different types of "CNC" reverse c-boring tools, niether of which was worth the box it came shipped in. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I use Vericut

We keep all our files on a network drive without any problem, except one. if folders get moved or renamed on the network, it screws up your paths, and if your using STL files for stock def or verify or whatever then you'll have a problem,

The clearance plane will be relative to Top/Top/Top view, no matter where you have your WCS set. I draw a vector line in the direction I want my plane, and put a point on it where I want my clearance height. Then I select user defined for the plane and select my vector line.

Thanks for making me get out my magnifying glass Create your WCS for the view at B0, and call it, say, B0. Then, lets say you next view is at 45 deg, so you creat another view there, and call it, say B45. Your toolpaths for B0 should have the planes, WCS=B0, and T and C B0. For your B45 view, T and C should be B45, but the WCS should stay at B0. Hope that makes sense.

I find this very irritating as well. What reakky gripes me, is why your operations go dirty if you change the work offset value.

Exactly

Yes.

Jmick's suggestion is probably the easiest, but I want the file to post "Ready to run" so that if I make a change 3 years from now, I won't have to try and remember what I did today. Rotating the geometry is out of the question. If I 'm sent a new model next year, when I import it in, it won't be in the right place. Plus, some of out customers prohibit translating or ratoating models. So, for this operation, I have a WCS called OP2, then ten different rotations, so ten tool planes/construction planes. I can see no way of modifying the rotation of OP2. It's easy to change the origin, but not the rotation. under view manager, I can't delete OP2 because it has tool paths associated with it. I clicked on "Create From" and created a copy of OP2, and rotated the view 45 degrees. Now, I go to the toolpath manager and under edit common parameters I change the WCS for all ops in this machine group to Copy OF OP2. However, when I do this, all of my T and C planes go to "Undefined/????????????????" In addition, while screwing with this, MC crashed 14 times. WTF? Since this is a simple part and only has about 50 ops, I went in and changed the WCS on each op individually. Of course, the ops all go dirty, but when I regened, everything was the way I wanted it. This can't be the easiest way to do it, can it?

Might be a sign to go buy a lotto ticket

I encountered something today that I've never needed to do before. I just finished programming a part, fairly simple 4 axis part, with 10 different wcs views. Piece of cake. It turns out, the fixture for the part was made with everything rotated 45 deg. So I just need to rotate all my planes +45 degrees in A. I can post it and manually change them, ie A0 = A45. , A127.2 = A172.2, etc., but I want my source file to be correct. Without having to go in and rotate all my views, then edit the planes for each operation, and then having all my operations go dirty, is there a shortcut to just changing the A origin?

This is a problem I've always had. I did some work at a shop where they had a fairly lame computer, but with a high end Quadro video card (don't know which model, wish I did) and the helix bore verify zoomed. IMO it's all in the video card

In your control def manager under arcs, under arc center type, select radius