Im looking more along the lines of profile milling tool bodies similar to those made by millstar. They have the inserts that can be aquired with different corner radiuses and work very well for profiling work. On the sites listed above I saw more of shell mills or face mills than I did any profiling or copy milling cutter bodies. Millstar and Dapra are the only ones I have found but both are very pricey. These are what are used at work and what I'm looking for but in a budget line the CB CYF series in a HSS or Carbide body. http://www.millstar.com/millstar-tool-holders.php Lovejoy tooling has a 558 series tool that is similar to what I'm looking for will have to email them on pricing. thanks again..

Are there any other companys that sell indexable Bullnose cutter bodies like millstar and Dapra but for not quite the cost but similar in design ?? Looking for a good profiling tool for a VMC but on a hobbyist budget or maybe little higher in cost just not at the price of Millstar for the time being. Millstar tooling is great but you do pay for it.. just looking for a cheaper alternative in a 3/4 and 1 inch range.. Thanks in advance.

thanks to all of you for your help.

Zoober do these adapters work with the adapter just on the DB25 machine side of the cable and then utilize the network port on the back of the computer since most if not all newer computers have no serial ports. I found some on newegg but I didn't know If I just need the db25 for the machine and the Ethernet port on the pc or both ends and a serial port add on card for the computer itself. Thanks..

I used to work at a place that used dnc to feed there programs to the machines. They had these adapters that plugged into the respective ports and utilized plugging a simple cat5 network cable into the ends of said adapters but the crossover or null modem cable effect was taken care of via these adapters thus preventing having to build your own cable for those not very good with soldering in tight spaces like the pin outs on the back of the connectors. Does anyone know what these are called or who makes them ? thanks in advance.

What would make the points that are created from a drill toolpath stay visible on the screen when you pick the center of the hole or many holes. We have points at all different levels of our geo and this only happens on one seat of mastercam but yet stays with the geo because it is part of the path. Cant be deleted or it corrupts the path. I have never seen this nor do any other of our 15 seats do this when using drill option. Is there something to make the points go hidden like they do on all the rest of our seats. Or possible corrupted mastercam install. thanks.

Maybe it's our firewall or antivirus causing on my company's end. I have the x8 version from long ago but wanted the updated version for X9

No I did not will do that shortly.

Is it just me or is anyone else having problems downloading the X9 version of the MD_CD rename utility from the mastercam web site. I keep getting error saying the file is empty when I try to extract it. Thanks in advance.

This is a display issue not back plot. The button between the lock and the ghost if pressed will show a display of the toolpath and direction, tool dia, and depth etc.. when you leave the display turned on using a drill path and Regen the drill path this is when the dia of the drill is displayed. X9 does not show this on the screen anymore. Also the color of the lines in the display seem to be translucent until zoomed right up on to them. We don't use backplot to much at this shop as we do not do 3D work in mastercam. Only 2D there for this display works as a quick way of backplotting our paths. Now we can hardly see the feed lines no matter what color we change them nor does the dia of tool show up anymore. Thanks in advance for any info. Also the quick verify mode with shade selected helps but not as great as the display.

Thanks for the reply. I'm actually referring to the display option for the toolpath. In X8 when regenerating a drilling operation with the display for the toolpath turned on, it would show a cicle equal to the drill dia. at the bottom of the hole. In X9 it blinks on when generating then goes off.

When u had the display turned onto X8 and Regen a drill path it would show the diameter of tool at the depth it was going to which worked as a great double check that one had the right size drill selected. In X9 how ever I cannot seem to get this function to stay on. It shows for a spilt second during Regen completion then it's just the feed and rapid lines being shown and how deep they go. Is this graphics card related or something I have not got turned on or off in my settings. TIA.

Yes I'm importing from an ops library that I created in X7 that has always worked with no problems until the latest update. I tried to go into my op and edit it to turn it back on but the coolant drop down menus are blank in all of the paths in my ops library. I also just noticed that my diameter offset is changing back to match that of the tool number instead of the number we use on our machines when using cutter comp. Thanks in advance.

So we have just started using X9 update 3 where I work and when I import paths now I no longer have my coolant options set like they used to be in X8. I used to be able to import the ops and it retain the coolant settings I had established for certain paths. It mainly loses them on the drill paths no others that I have noticed yet. Thanks for any help.

Does the tool step, peck, & coolant option not work when importing OPS. When ever I import ops I get no coolant at all. thanks