The other programmer here picks the whole solid as well.... I lived through the " Dr. Watson" days where you had to pick each surface sometimes to see which one was crashing the system and had to be recreated so MC could crunch it lol

Just saw this... Good Luck !! Hopefully you get to start making Trick SCCA car parts etc. !

Scary at first , but it's what we're looking for . I don't know how easy it is to un tangle it back if needed...

If I had 30 + years in at MC it would be a great Segway into retirement.. Its been nice !

I have it. I run my mill set. Set up sheet Which gives me a tool list with the maximum Z depth for each tool. I copy it and paste it into mc' "Notes" Then I place it on the screen under the part and print the screen. Done. I can give you my mill.set post And a quick video if your into it.

HSS Area clearence BLOWS the doors of surface rough pocket which i have used for a decade... it wastes it climb mills ALWAYS and doesn't drag the cutter across the floor going back to Geo etc. To finish it or clean it out...

In the CAD world you spread your fingers out on your screen like a smart phone on the feature....insane

High end Machine tools use Grease Not Way oil , hmmmm

Figure out the center distance 039 wide = .0197 etc Now I do an offset curve from one of the edges. Takes some quick trimming and a little clean up here and there. * If you have text / Dims etc. You cant chain use Break ( lines ) ? and now you can.

You might have to much controller for your ball screws now. We had Fadals with the Fanuc controller It wore out ballscrews when the 88S ? Controller machines didnt ( they didnt get any serious work done either) lol

The entire metric library has been standardized by John Paris , want a copy ? Pm me an address to send it to.

Pmesh is the way to go now over save as .stl ?

It's not the same as it used to be for sure.I believe since 2017 it has been " Ignoring the 2D/3D Z level dialogue box data. I had it logged as a bug back then

" It gets messy quick " You nailed it...

I talked to trac at imts They said " get a new trac" All you can do is reload the O.S. Again and again ( off a floppy) We Junked it.... EDIT: There are plenty of renegade repair guys out there that have old new stock,it ain't dead yet.