I'm going to second the threadmill suggestion.

I've got some streakers on the way on a recommendation from several people.

I'm looking for those little spring clips that keep a carbide tool from going too deep in a heat shrink holder. I even have some at 1/4" but need several sizes all of the sudden. Thanks-

I just go 25.4/metric pitch and enter it for taps pitch. Never thought about using a metric tap library. Maybe I'm under thinking it.

For some reason I am disappointed every time I use Garr. It works and is good, OSG seems to last longer in side by sides for the same buck or less. I guess disappointed is harsh, I'll back down to not impressed. Harvey impresses me. Every time.

I specifically requested postability posts for my last 2 machines. Not going any deeper.

It has made me more diligent on hitting the save button more often. I hope one of us figures out where the trigger is, I'm betting it is more of a specific hardware issue or specific driver issue. I know it is a pain in the butt for us but I'm starting to feel a little sorry for cnc software on this one having to track down a random issue. I wouldn't go back to X9 if the tool manager crashed every time though, this release makes more sense than any other in my opinion.

Tool manager, first tool, crash.

No crashes yet, heading into a heavy tool manager session right away.

I get the crash but not all the time. I think we gained enough from this release to put up with a little instability in some random functions.

I've only been using it for a couple weeks and so far I'm really liking it. I like being able to change attribs and levels in right click. I even set my 3 most popular colors for wireframe, solids and surfaces. You can select any entity and change its color regardless if it is a line, solid, surface, drafting, whatever it just changes. Have a big 5 axis project next week that will tell the tale for sure.

We tied one in the "old building" about 5 years ago, before we bought the new place we didn't have room so we put the Mazak lathe and the minimill in a converted drive in storage bay with no AC. Lasted about one day, the coolness was not worth the excessive humidity. You could feel it, maybe I'm wimpy but when I walked in there breathing was harder. Thing was huge, about 6 foot tall. Good thing we borrowed it and didn't buy it.

Good luck with the CPM 9V, I haven't cut any in about as long as you are old but remember it being tougher at a lower rockwell than most materials were at 58C. Nearly impossible to grind also, that's back when "C" had the patent on CPM9 and 10 and nobody else could make it so it was expensive also. 4150 and H13 will be manageable. The "you have to use what you've got" sentiment I'm assuming from management is counter productive (trust me I weathered it here where I work for years) and is the same thing that lead them into a shop full of HAAS's. You have the potential to be very valuable to your shop if you can step up their game a little and you are on the right track by asking questions here

Like I said, I got used to it. The discovery of the grayed out button that when you check it magically appears "Reference Point" was a discovery that changed my life in lathe. I program for 3 lathes, all single chuck one turret. Take the time you spend worrying about it and just start clicking on things LOL the day goes much faster. We produce more round parts than any other shape and half of them you wouldn't recognize as programs looking at the screen. Just a series of lines and curves and random looking points around the screen. Would love to look at your file, I don't admit it often but I do a LOT of lathe parts. Did you ever create a tool in X9 lathe, couldn't see it, do it again, couldn't see it, close and open mastercam... both there?

I was thinking... do you live near Columbus? You're hired. LOL that does look cool

It changes all the time on me, I just got used to it. I just go to the bottom, click on "Planes", Lathe Diameter in the menu and to the right is the lathe planes. I always change to -D -Z (WCS). Happened like 10 times a day regardless of what plane set the drawing was in originally. Seemed easy enough to get around, using 2017 now lets see if it's gone.

Haven't jumped to a laptop for Mastercam yet, I like multiple monitors. How do you guys handle that... a dock and another monitor or just live with one screen? I primarily use one screen anyway but I have e-mail and forums and McMaster carr orders going on the second one...

The raster to vector never seems to give me enough to just cut, always needs to be cleaned up drastically. Is this pretty much normal? I played with the settings and still get squiggles and phantom dots/shadow lines... Sorry for the hijack.

I don't normally agree with anyone but this is the exact same method I use for a LOT of things. Facing, almost always especially on tons of parts in a production run. The facing path don't stand a chance in most situations if you time it. I do circles also, draw a circle mid tool and contour with no comp. Ramp path usually did 6 pcs today that way

If you have an ancient spare computer laying around as long as it has a serial port you can drip feed your Haas relatively easily. Even XP will do it fine. Then your program size is only limited by hard drive size. I haven't done it in 3 years with mine but I wouldn't hesitate if I were facing a large program.

The "R" in this guys logo took an hour just to make it chainable, and to make it look like the picture. I bet there were 2000 entities when I started.

I have never found a good way. Being they are overlapping and not duplicates hard to single them out. I end up recreating a lot of the geometry. Hopefully someone else will chime in with a magic wand

I have found that if they turn red they can be regenerated. Else you will get the warning box that gives you a list of options.

I bet there is a shortcut but I go to create/drafting/regen.

Yup my first op is always a stock model on anything I want to use rest paths on. Andrew it is real easy, I know because I can do it. It's in "toolpaths" Click on stock model in the menu and the rest is history. Well first you should create a model of your initial stock, you will need to select it to generate the stock model but it is only one solid instead of many. AND I personally never move them. I put it initially where zero is and cut from there.