Thank you all for contributing in this post! :) As I suspected there's many expressions used for this. I think I'll stay with "stickout" then!

Hi. Me and a colleague (we're from Norway in Europe) got into a discussion about what's the correct term for what I call "tool-stickout length". What do the native English speaking folks here say? Is there a formal term and an informal one for this? Also, does one use other names for what I call "work piece stickout" or "boring-bar stickout" etc..? Any other terms for this?

Hi Roger! We're looking into this solution in our shop. I downloaded the pdf you provided here, but the link to the Prototek Engineering sharefile is not available anymore. Is this a program you wrote just to make the process easier, or do we need it to reverse-engineer something in Mastercam to make this solution work at all? I'm thinking about doing it like this: - Move entire "shared Mastercam" folder to desired network location - Relink path in Configuration > Files > Shared Data Folder After this I will mirror the whole installation of Mastercam on my computer, and push it to all the computers in our shop. In my head this is a viable solution. What do you think?

I though about this recently as well! Best answer I came up with is that setup lenght on a similar tool for X-axis cutting would be hard to set because you would need an Y-axis offset for the tool, and usually you can't probe a tool in Y-axis direction.. Does this make sense? Anyway.. I am struggling to make G96 work with Y-axis cutting on a Mazak Nexus 350 MY with 640T version of Mazatrol. Does anyone have a solution for this? Right now the spindle is going straight up to my defined "G50 Sxxx" speed when moving to X0 to start Y-axis cutting.. I read somewhere that G96 Sxxx P2 M03 could make the machine use Y-axis as reference for the G96, but nothing happened.