The quick way around this is to do all your file transfers as parasolids. Bulletproof. As long as you are not hopelessly out of date.

I have three of five references: 1 Owner 1 Manager/Director from a multinational company 1 Supervisor All my immediate superiors when I worked with them. All good people. I usually get an interview.

Not sure it really matters as long as everyone in your company is on the same page. Having said that we generally use Out Of Holder (OOH) in the Pac NW (I am sure there are exceptions). I think this is a little more descriptive, Tool Out Of Holder is pretty unambiguous, Tool Stickout, on the other hand, might prompt the question: Stick out of what? We are definitely in the realm of picking fly dung out of peppercorns on this one, I think.

Or anything but a pretty open OUTSIDE profile on any machine.

I have 2 HP laptops. One is an i7 and one is an i9. The i7 is used on my main work station laptop and is set up with max RAM and the most expensive Quadro card I could afford (5000). It smokes the i9 machine with an Quadro 2000 card. The i7 CPU allowed me to distribute my RAM evenly over my DIMs, really helps with temp. control.

Holes are nothing but misery generally, and Titanium is no exception here. MolyD mixed with Copperease is one of the best tapping fluids I have used for Ti. In the hard metal shops I have worked in, generally anything more than 3/8" diameter and I am looking at a threadmill option. Also true for the nasty stainless steels.

Titanium (6Al4V) is pretty straight forward if you use good machining practices. It is both hard AND tough. It is (like Aluminum) a heat resistant material. That is, it does not conduct heat well. As rigid a set up as you can manage. Both with your tools (short as possible) and fixturing / tooling. I leave a fair amount of stock (obviously it depends on the cutter you are using), with a .5 -.75 inch solid carbide, and pretty much any insert cutter I can think of, I am leaving 0.02" stock to finish. If you are only leaving 0.01 with inserts, you are probably in trouble already. Keep you chip load as high as you can to get the heat into the chip, more stock helps here. Smaller parts are fine in a 40T machine, but once you get up much above 12" you will certainly wish you had a 50T.

It looks like the A output is being forced, that's normally not the default condition for Mpmaster. The OFF is a coolant conflict. We will probably need a Zip2go or at least a post file.

As Cementhead points out, yes, it is possible. Be aware however that threads add a lot of relative weight to the solid. Fine if you have one or 2 but a bunch might slow you down.

Sorry Ron but I am going to blatantly crib that one, nice.

Seiki just means precision, that's why you see it so often

I have modified several posts for single spindle/single turret Y axis full 4 axis, and for twin spindle. All machines were post and go. Once you add a turret it gets more complicated. There are experienced lathe guys out there who run twin turrets with MP posts, but I am really a mill guy, so I would probably go with the new "machining environment" system if I had to handle one of these. I noticed you other post referring to your frustration with your post provider. This is not unusual and is what prompted me to learn post editing.

Hence the need to do a cost analysis. Any hard metal part bigger than 9 or 12 inches would almost certainly be more cost effective than solid carbide. And yes, using all the flute length in solid carbide can get you some easily bough MMR, But I have machined Titanium with inserts at .013 chipload and 16-18 cubes (45 HP dual winding spindle motor). Good luck with solid carbide.

True, but if you crash a solid carbide tool you are out a big chunk of carbide. Inserts are generally used for larger sizes, with good quality 3/4 inch (probably in the lower diameter range for insert substitution) standard length carbide tools running $250 - 300, it might not be as lopsided as you might think. Always best to do a quick cost analysis. Not forgetting the cost of the regrinds of course.

All things being equal, inserts are cheaper. Even if you pull solid carbide before you get any chipping there is a limit to the number of regrinds you will get. Then you throw away a sizeable (relative) chunk of carbide. With inserts you don't throw away so much, and you get several (at least) new edges before you throw it away.