That is a good idea I will look into the macro option.

Yea we recently started using the multi-axis drilling operation and that has cut down on the total number of operations. Unfortunately i am unable to share the model due to company policy's so from the sounds of it we probably are already doing it the most efficient way. programing one cut then transforming it to all the rest then doing the final transform but it can get confusing on some of the parts. the only other idea i had was maybe with a custom post edit and using the custom parameters fields in a rotate transform i could get and axis move between each instance but that might be a question for my re-seller.

yea that is what i was hoping to avoid 33 pockets each with a bunch of operations then circular pattern it 3 times. we make a couple parts like this each week i was just hopeful that a faster way existed in Mastercam in Solidworks its a nice easy curve driven pattern. Also i like your signature!

Does anyone know of a good way to pattern/transform operations for something that needs to both rotate and move along an axis. all of the cuts are the same. currently we use a translate between planes for each cut sometimes hundreds of pattern operations (also trying to prevent lots of tool changes) but i was wanting to find a better method.