That's the ticket, thank you!

Stupid questions, using Win7 and Soiledworks '11. When clicking on links to .sldprt files it used to ask me to open or save. I usually choose save so I clicked "Don't ask me again" and it defaulted to opening the file instead of saving. Now I can't get IE to save it, it just opens it in IE and I can't access my macros from there. I tried to fix it in File Types in Folder Options but it appears the idiocy that is Microsoft decided we don't need that feature any more so I can't find the box to deselect "open in same window" to stop this stupid xxxx. Any one know how to edit the Registry to fix this? Thanks!

Did you have two friends hold you first?

The easy answer is yes. You might check the VB section. If you can run your post via a VB script you can easily add VB code to launch it afterwards. It's been a couple years since I've done posts but it seems to me there was a way to do that back in the day even without using VB. If you don't get an answer (I can't imagine you won't here, these guys really know their stuff) I'll see if I can dig up an old post with an example of how to do it.

Trevor, how's the kids?? My youngest is hinting about joining a soccer team. Personally I think he'd be better in the UFC or even doing FMX but whatever.

Thanks all for the info. Our demo was done by Bob Borchelt and I didn't bring up support but I will. I am looking at RYM and will be contacting Cimco as well. Appreciate all the advice!

JMWorks, thanks for the heads up. I will surely keep that in mind! Good stuff, James. I'm forwarding the website for RYM to upper management.

Thanks Tom. We are looking at this for one of our Southeast Asia facilities.

Excellent. Thank you.

Who's a good contact person for Cimco? (You can send via PM if you'd rather) I am looking at this for one of our Southeast Asia facilities but they don't need to be in this area. The Predator demo we got was from a guy stateside using skype. Thanks again for your time.

Thanks Mick. More than just DNC. Predator can use Macro B (or PLC boards) to report machine status in real time. Generate reports. File management. Lots of stuff. The DNC part of it is a minor consideration for us compared to other things it does.

We've got a fairly large operation here, 60+ HAAS' with plans to expand. Today I caught the tail end of a presentation for Predator Software Suite. The reporting aspect of it looks good, but what else can it do? Is it worth it? Are there alternatives or is this the bomb? I'd like to look at all possibilities before we pull the trigger and you guys are the best in the business so I value your opinions. Thanks

Thanks Bruce. I've got our supplier looking for the downcut end mills. I think that's the best approach considering if we deburr them by hand we will eliminate our ability to measure the +-.001 tolerances often put on these chamfers. For the life of me I can't imagine why we would need that kind of tolerance but it is what it is. The beginning of my career back in the early '80s was with plastics, mostly acrylics and nylons. I don't ever remember having the grade of engineering plastics we have now (maybe they were in existence and I just never heard of them) and we never had to worry about these kinds of tolerances. Will let you know how things turn out.

Thanks Phil, I considered that but there are too many different variations in our designs for this to be feasible. Matt, that's genius! Thank you.

We are already using diamond tooling. I know there are different methods for different plastics and there is a certain rate you have to get up to temp, stay at temp, then come down to room temp and that affects how it works.