Ah! That makes sense. Thanks

I think we're both misunderstanding what they mean. This is what I'm talking about, from 2022. I selected a whole group of operations and did this to them:

I hate change as much as the next person lol, but adding the tip comp to the drilling parameters was a good idea. Always forgetting to turn it off when going to a tap or spot, now it will be right under my nose when I'm setting the depth.

That's been there for a while hasn't it? By clicking on Planes under Edit COmmon? I do it on 2022 all the time

OK thanks.

Guessing that a no from you... Do you beta test for them?

Do you know if they listen to the beta testers as far as UI design goes?

OK, what am I missing?

I was using 8.1 until 6 years ago when I changed jobs, and I don't remember how to do what he wants anymore...

I was able to do it by going into Solid Selection instead of using Wireframe, and using edges. Unless I'm misunderstanding what they want to do? Oh ok, "one line" I see. No, this won't do that, you'd have to select each one individually.

That did it! Then I just regenerated the toolpath. Pretty cool. Thank you sir

I had a ball EM finish the ID on this, then surface that big angle. Came out great. Engineering wants the hole to be .010" smaller on the next one. Is there a way with model editing or model prep to make that hole smaller and bring the angle down to meet it? This was an Inventor part that I brought in as a mastercam solid. If there's no way, how would you handle prototype models like this that will need to be altered here and there? Am I better off learning to work with Surfaces?

Back when I worked there, we tried that and couldn't get it to work. I don't know why. That's why the boss just kept getting older Dells on eBay with the parallel port built in. It seems odd to keep up the maintenance which is not cheap, on something you don't use. I try not to assume about people though.

Oh wait a sec.. Does he still have the parallel port hasp, or does he have one of the newer USB ones?

The shop I used to work for still has 8.1, they get an old dell off ebay every 5 years or so. $180 Dell on eBay

That's really weird man.

Well for what it's worth, in 25ish years on Mastercam I've never had a tool run through an island. I've always picked entry points first though. Coincidence? Does it make a difference? No idear...

Huh. Even better, I didn't even have to move the point. I tried regenerating it in 2022 like you without moving anything and it worked. Weird.

I went into your chains and moved the point from last to first.

Do you have Dynamic Milling?

That's nice! Had to go and clean mine after I took the pictures...

It comes with clear caps on the keys so you can put labels under them, they pop right off. I printed a screenshot of Mastercam and cut them out with scissors. I think I had to play with the size to get it right, it was a while ago. I seem to remember putting some of them in Windows Paint or something to write the name under them. If you get it let me know, I can send you the ones I have. Even if you don't use them maybe it will help at least to see the size of them. *edit* Also, to answer your first post about gaining speed. I'm not really gaining any speed with this but my hand doesn't hurt at the end of the day like I said.

It's on the left side of the keyboard right where it is in this pic.. and I usually have my thumb on the tab key of the regular keyboard to tab through settings etc while my right hand goes between the mouse and number pad on the right side. I put a drop of glue on the ESC key in the middle so I can feel the bump and get my hand centered without looking and put the most used commands nearest to that. This is all I need. My needs seem to be simpler than a lot of people here. I looked into the space mouse etc. but it just seemed like a lot of money for not much return (again, for my simple needs) I got this because with all the ALT-Key combinations we use, by the end of the day I'd go home with my left hand feeling like I had been flashing complicated gang signs all day lol, it's helped a lot because you can keep your left hand pretty much straight.

I like this one. As a bonus it has 2 USB ports which is handy for putting programs on thumb drives for the machines that need them. https://www.amazon.com/ELSRA-Programming-ControlPad-PK-2068-programmable/dp/B079BTFFQN

Thank you for doing this!