Thanks Ron I will. I have been able to modify several things in my post that are helping us to keep from hand editing the nc files. This is one of tha last thing to fix.

I am trying to control the retact angles and the way the machine unwinds at the bottom or top of a curve. We use no safety zones. We us misc pivot length for each tool.

I would like to see if anyone or (Charles Davis)Specifically can help me update and modify my post. I have been working on it as the company that it came from is no longer in business. I need a little help on the unwind functions to give the machine a smoother program output.

I developed the original positive shape for the upper die and then place it into the block (upper). I have not made them common. I just wanted to use the upper solid shape without the upper block to boolean a cavity into the lower block. And yes I have done this before. This particular solid I am assuming has problems. And I am trying to fix them so that I may continue. To make the bottom Block. This is for a forming die.

The actual error is cannot create a non-manifold body.

I am working in version 8.1 I do have Solid Edge though and am thinking about using it instead.

Sorry I can't at this time as this relates to a new product. If you could give me so general reasons fo a non-manifold body error message I can probably fix it.

I am working in solids and trying to use the Boolean feature. I have a positive mold block (TOP) and I wish to Boolean out the cavity on the Bottom Block. When I try to do this I get a parisolids error. Boolean operation will result in a non-manifold body. Please explain what I am doing wrong.

And I just lowered my Cholesterol.

So far I haven't had good luck making Mastercam play nice with the ATI cards in general. Never tried the Fire GL.

Westwind make a good Air spindle. IBAG make a good electric. We run our air spindles for Titanium at 65000 rpms We have also developed Adapter heads for the Fadal and Haas machines to hold six spindles. So we can run multiples of smaller parts.

If you use the constrction attributes and tools in Solid Edge you can make you part into a Suface instead of a solid. Or output it in Iges and import into MCAM and it will convert it to a tirmmed surface. Then you should be able to use it.

Help me I'm meing. ........... AAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHH.

You guys should make sure there is no spywear attached to this program. Besides there are numerous programs that do the same thing. Net2phone communicator. This one lets you call to another computer or to a telephone. Yahoo messenger. You can chat, use video and sound. There are more.

Depending on the file size you may have to go into the configuration of mastercam and give it more toolpath buffers to work with. If your system is set to the default amount this may no be enough. Also if the file is extremely large or complex, you may need anoth 512MB of ram. A newer video card would be nice but won't help you calculate toolpaths any faster.