I was quoted a machine about 6 months ago and was intrigued by the linear motors but the max table weight scared me away.  66 lbs......... what the f do you do with that?

I ran into a problem where I scrapped two parts with a days worth of work into it because I blew up a tap in both of them. 1/2-13  so pretty basic stuff right here.  I couldn't not for the life of me figure out why i kept breaking taps.  Then a few days later after tapping the rest by hand I found out that the tool crib stocked helicoil taps in the normal tap spot.

Even on simple parts my hybrid tool path takes soo long to process.  X9 was fine.  I'm talking almost to the point I'm not sure if it freezes or what, so I usually have to just end the talk of the system to get out of it.  Canceling the multi threading even takes 5 minutes some times.  Does anyone else have any tips or similar experiences?

I just cannot get scallop to give me what I want.  Scallop in X9 worked fine but the HST scallop was terrible.  Now im stuck with a Scallop that does nto cut alot of my part where I have never had a problem before.  Is there any kind of tutorials on it.

Is there a way I can get check surfaces to not be cut when using hi speed scallop.  It just cuts the whole part pretty much.  I have had more luck with the regular scallop in x9.  Im using 2017 btw