Morning everyone, Got a question. When backplotting in X, is there a way to change the tool and the holder from translucent to solid? Thanks Joey

Thanks guys Where do I find the group properties? Joey

Forgot, it was a mcx file that I merged in.

Morning When I merge a file into "X" my part turns red. When I analysis it, the attributes say it's still the original color . Why does it do this and how can I fix it? Thanks Joey

Thad I just reloaded my .mtb files and everything came back. It's weird, everything was there on saturday and today they were gone. I even tried rebooting and it didn't work. I don't know what's going on, but my toolbars are back and all is good in the world. Thanks for the reply Thad. Joey

Morning everyone Got a question concerning toolbars. I'm starting to get into using "X" and still fumbling my way around. When I opened it up today all my toolbars are missing. When I opened up the - settings - customize menu nothing is listed in the windows for either the toolbars or the drop down/ right mouse sections. I'm not sure what's going on. We loaded the latest update. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks Joey

Bill Yes he's still teaching. He's teaching the day class. He asked me to teach the night class last semester. It was fun. That's because I has a good mentor. He teaches a few other classes also. Joey

I'm not sure what's wrong but I think if you post your question on the main forum you'll probably get more responses Joey

My pleasure Joey

Louis Try putting a point in the center of onee of the through holes. Then when you pick your geometry for your pocket, select the point first and then your pocket geometry. Hope this works. If not let me know through the forum and I can try something else for you or maybe someone else knows a different way. I'll check the forum through out the night. Joey

Thanks Storkman I do know that it uses an "E1" for the work offset. Joey

I'm not sure of the control. We got lab tonight so I'll check it out then. The day instructor will be there to give me a hand. Thanks gentlemen. Joey

I've been here almost 2 1/2 years and I've never seen him out in the shop.

Evening all I was wondering if someone out there has a program for a monarch vertical mill. I'm teaching a class and we ran a program on a monarch in the lab and I couldn't get it to run. I'm not that familiar with a Monarch. Anything would be helpful. Thanks Joey

Thanks guys I'll have to give that a try a little later, the boss wants to see me right now. Joey

John Thanks for your time, it's time to get out of here. I'll have to tackle this on Monday. Thank again for your help. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Joey

Sorry That's this line here. fmtrnd(prv_cabs) = fmtrnd(cabs), pbld, n, *slock, "(LOCK)", e

John I slipped that in and got an error message. Variable found, '=' or ':' expected. Post line number 636 Program execution halted due to error(s) in .pst That's this line here.

The prapidout section dose have a scoolant callout in it.

John Here's what it looks like. Is this where I should be looking? ptlchg0 #Call from NCI null tool change (tool number repeats) pcuttype pcom_moveb c_mmlt #Multiple tool subprogram call " ",e comment " ",e pcan pbld, n, sgplane, e pspindchng pbld, n, scoolant, e if mi1 > one & workofs <> prv_workofs, [ sav_absinc = absinc absinc = zero pbld, n, sgabsinc, pwcs, pfxout, pfyout, pfzout, pfcout, e pe_inc_calc ps_inc_calc absinc = sav_absinc ] if cuttype = zero, ppos_cax_lin if gcode = one, plinout else, prapidout pcom_movea c_msng #Single tool subprogram call Joey

John Here's what I'm trying to accomplish. X27.1525 Y.1215 Z.3745 A-173.25 F402.46 X27.1767 Z.3742 A-174.152 F401.54 X27.1967 Z.375 A-174.891 F485.11 X27.2168 Y.1216 A-175.63 F484.8 G94 X27.4494 Y1.0941 F25. G00 Z6.0 M09 M05 G91 G28 Z0. G90 G00 A0. X10 Y4.0 T10 M06 M30 % Joey

I wish I could give some input on this subject but our IT guys haven't loaded X yet. waiting patiently, Joey

Morning all you unfortunate folks working today. I have a post question. I would like to put the M09 on the retract line at the end of the operation but I can't figure out how to do it in the post. Everything I try doesn't work. It's a Haas post. I'm using MC9. Any help would great. Joey

Thanks guys I'll have to play around some more with it. Joey

Mayday Thanks for the quick response. Could you elaborate a little on how to use it. I tried it but didn't understand the Roll-die toolpath options. Thanks Joey