x2 On this. Is there any way to get a projection length field? The Length field (7.0) in this example is useless IMO, I want to know the length the drill sticks out of the turret not the OAL. My work-around has been to re-name the tool (9/16" DRILL - TOOL OUT 3.9") as seen in the example below.

Thanks man

Hi guys, I just made the switch today from X6 to X8. I noticed that when I click Select Library Tool that when the Tool Selection page pops up it defaults to showing Both the assemblies and tools. Is there a way to make the Display Mode default to Tools only and it stays that way? Thanks in advance.

I loaded up X7 MU1 today. I am very pleased that some of my issues were addressed. Now that the tolerances can be saved i changed them to what I had in X6 and did a little Pepsi-challenge with the same part in x6 and x7. I dont know if this is a tolerance issue that I set, but I have played around with the different values and it doesnt seem to help. The x7 verified image shows +/- stock in different areas where the x6 showed that it was perfect everywhere. Also, this verifier is painfully slow. I ran x6 against x7 and x7 was easily three to four times slower than x6.

I suppose theres no release date set in stone anywhere?

Thank you for all of your help gentlemen, I am looking forward to upgrading to X7 and i do understand that there are bugs that always pop up.

Thats not the reason why i am sticking with x6 until MU1 comes out. The verifier compare tolerances being so far out, corner rounding on waterline not working properly, I absoloutely cannot stand the tool pages, and setup sheets taking over 1 minute to calculate are the main things that irritate the heck out of me. I thought that the extra 0.0002" on bounding boxes was a skewed setting that i had.

Thank you thats what i wanted to know. I am going to stick with X6 and hold off on using x7 until MU1. Thanks again i appreciate it.

I had the same results when i made a 4" x 4" x 4" block using surfaces.

I changed my stitching tolerance to 0.001 and there was no change. # of digits behind decimal is 4, measurement system is US, digital grouping is 123,456,789

0.001" these settings are set the same exact way that i had them in x6

Yes JP its with every parasolid that i have read into x7. I have never had this happen with x6.

I have a laundry list of complaints about x7, this is just one of the more annoying things. I have been talking with my mcam dealer with my major complaints, this is one i thought might have been my fault.

I noticed this also happens when creating a bounding box, is there a setting somewhere i need to change? Thanks guys.

Is anyone else having an issue with the bounding box adding 0.0001" per side around their part? Is there any fix to this, or do i have an incorrect setting somewhere?