Ahhh the ol' russian roulette trick fixed many of wierd motions.

I like to put notes in my operations. Makes it much easier to find a certain tool path when you need to edit it and also helps me or some else when running the program. Nice to know where your tool is going next. Well sometimes I forget and have to go back into the parameters and then to the tool tab where the note area is located. Discovered a much faster and easier way today. If you double click out in the operations type area it will open up a box like you are changing a name. Type your note in there and your done. It will appear in the note area on the tool tab in parameters. The click can be a little tricky to get used to. I found a slow click works best than a quick double. Works in bothe X9 and 2017.

I agree comments are very important. For proving out programs and setup there is a nice little VB script gem for printing out, or emailing to your smartphone, a handy little operations sheet that shows each toolpath, it's coinciding tool, and your COMMENTS that you add as well as the operation sequence number. This is nice for large programs with 50+ operations as far as navigating and jotting notes. Without my X7 in front of me, I believe it's in VB script under getjobinformation. If you're somewhat tech savvy you can edit the HTML code to fit you're needs. Check it out!

I like to put notes in my operations. Makes it much easier to find a certain tool path when you need to edit it and also helps me or some else when running the program. Nice to know where your tool is going next. Well sometimes I forget and have to go back into the parameters and then to the tool tab where the note area is located. Discovered a much faster and easier way today. If you double click out in the operations type area it will open up a box like you are changing a name. Type your note in there and your done. It will appear in the note area on the tool tab in parameters. The click can be a little tricky to get used to. I found a slow click works best than a quick double. Works in bothe X9 and 2017.

You can make a model of your part kind of like the end result of VERIFY. In toolpaths select stock model, select your choice of color, set up your stock dimensions or if you already have just click update stock and then in the next tab select which toolpaths you'd like to view and your tolerance. You may also compare your stock model to your stp. file with different colors. It takes a minute to generate your solid but it's right on your screen (along with your solid model) and easy to see and navigate. You can add as many as you like to see the progress of your part. I use it all the time especially for jobs with alot of surfacing.