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I wouldn't be interested in having to sort thru all the bogus speed & feeds but if you are proposing some way of recording valid analyzed data this may possibly interest me. pay for it hmmm?

Now that will get the students attention and likely some very unwanted attention also!

They have some project books on the in house store but your idea sound pretty kewl. Good Luck

I'm not much with macros but by using the logic to get the NXXXX to defining the #592= value. Then change the last #592= from 0 to 1. And at the beginning add a N1 Then you may only need one line to direct the program, something like goto #592.

If your relative is set to zero at Z home and you then move down to the face of your fixture. won't that be what you want.

Fully agree on why would you tie up a spindle for inspection. But must add that ths is a lot faster probing software than I'm accustomed to. Sure would speed up a lot of basis probing routines but how much is that worth?

I would create a solid model.

Think I'll go find a boulder to drop on my head now!

Also appreciate all you have shared also John. And many others on this site. Thanks

Thanks for all that you have shared Ron. But If he recieved information without any agreement of disclosure then he is free to do as he wishes IMHO.

You can use analyze volume of any solid part and calc the drifference from the stock volume to get material removal. Click analyze, volume/area, solid properties then click you solid model.

I agree John that if a post writer dosn't want you to share then he very well should bin his post.

Unless you've agreed not to disclose information I don't see any problem with sharing information.

Jwright, What do you think of Edgecam? Sales guy showed us a demo of how it can do automatic feature based machining with very little data input. Wondering if its as easy as it looks in the video.

I'm just wondering if we had cut the thing yet. .02 off the top of some jaws happens everyday without even trying.

Are you referring to saving the type of machine in the simulation? If so my set-up saves the machine type I used in the simulation with the file.

Yes, you are correct didn't read carefully.

If you right click the toolbar and click customize then options there is a large icon check box. HTH

Gr8 Job Thx 4 sharing

Thx much JParis

Just change it to "...",

Gcode where can we find this backup setting and would this be in the windows user folder somewhere? Thx

If you use incremental values in your linking parameters then all you have to do is translate the geometry and your done all the linking parameters will change relative to the geometry. But I you used absolute then you'll have to change them manually. You can use Oscar R approach if you want them all the same value but likely not. If they are many drifferent values the you can still mass edit using common parameters but you'll still have to choose the operations with matching values. I would suggest getting used to using incremental values in the linking parameters to avoid this in the future. Sorry but That's the best I can come up with.