Just an FYI, they are UV lines....they show the "flow" direction of the underlying UV direction of the surface

I think the first thing I would suggest is going to NVIDIA dit com and getting the latest driver for the card...see if that addresses it.. Also, have you tried different background colors just to see if that's what's hiding them? If that motherboard on that computer has an "on board" video card, make sure it is disabled in the bIOS

What video card?

with a .03 micron layer, we hold much tight tolerances and finish requirements. We've not had the chance to see how good as the parts we do use this printer to manufacture do not require it.

I'll point this out on the xm200c, the spec sheet doesn't list Ti6Al4V • Stainless Steel: 316L, 17-4 PH, 15-5, 400 Series • Super Alloys: 718, 625, Cobalt Chrome F75 • Tooling Steels: Maraging M300 and the other link won't come up for me... But...a couple of things when processing Ti6Al4V.....post processing the material after printing it is really necessary....for us this means every batch we print goes to stress relieve on the plate that the parts are printed on.... Then when they come back they go through the Hiping process... The support material removal can be a bit of work. You will want to look for orientations that require a minimal of support material, yet is still reliable enough to print. Any tolerance that you can hold is ultimately controlled in a big way by the layer size a machine can print. We can easily hold ±.005" which for our process is acceptable as all tight features are machined after post processing. Tapped holes and such.

All of our HMC programs come out this way....the offsets are posted out of Mastercam...the final adjustments are generally under .002" We type in the reference location notes (***********************) (*******PART 1*******) (*****PREP OP1*****) (G54.1P101 - B0. - PART - 01 FRONT FACE) (X0 CENTER OF STOCK) (Y0 CENTER OF OF STOCK) (Z0 TOP OF PART) G90G10L20P101X0.Y-6.2173Z-18.441 (*****OP2*****) (G54.1P1 - B90. - PART - 01 FRONT FACE) (X0 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Y0 -2.4294 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Z0 +3.565 FROM ROCKLOCK FACE) G90G10L20P1X0.Y-6.2173Z-18.4826 (G54.1P2 - B0. - PART - 01 SIDE OP) (X0 +4.5492 FROM TOMBSTONE FACE) (Y0 -2.4294 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Z0 -.2837 FROM ROCKLOCK HIGHSIDE) G90G10L20P2X9.4704Y-6.2173Z-26.1993 (G54.1P3 - B180. - PART - 01 SIDE OP) (X0 -4.5492 FROM TOMBSTONE FACE) (Y0 -2.4294 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Z0 -.2837 FROM ROCKLOCK HIGHSIDE) G90G10L20P3X-9.4704Y-6.2173Z-26.1993 (G54.1P4 - B357. - PART - 01 SIDE OP) (X0 +4.2881 FROM CENTER OF TOOLING BALL) (Y0 -2.4294 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Z0 +1.5376 FROM TOOLING BALL CENTER) G90G10L20P4X9.5325Y-6.2173Z-26.6843 (G54.1P35 - B353 - PART - 01 SIDE OP) (X0 +4.3419 FROM CENTER OF TOOLING BALL) (Y0 -2.4294 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Z0 +1.3223 FROM TOOLING BALL CENTER) G90G10L20P35X9.5747Y-6.2173Z-27.2662 (*****OP3*****) (G54.1P17 - B180. - PART - 01 FRONT FACE) (X0 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Y0 -2.4294 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Z0 +3.565 FROM ROCKLOCK FACE) G90G10L20P17X0.Y-6.2173Z-18.4826 (G54.1P18 - B90. - PART - 01 SIDE OP) (X0 +3.565 FROM ROCKLOCK FACE) (Y0 -2.4294 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Z0 -1.0124 FROM ROCKLOCK HIGHSIDE) G90G10L20P18X9.4704Y-6.2173Z-26.928 (G54.1P19 - B270. - PART - 01 SIDE OP) (X0 -3.565 FROM ROCKLOCK FACE) (Y0 -2.4294 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Z0 -1.0124 FROM ROCKLOCK HIGHSIDE) G90G10L20P19X-9.4704Y-6.2173Z-26.928 (*****OP4*****) (G54.1P29 - B270. - PART - 01 FRONT FACE) (X0 +.005 FROM CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Y0 -2.4832 FROM CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Z0 +1.25 FROM DEEP LOCATING FACE IN JAWS) G90G10L20P29X.005Y-6.2711Z-18.8384

With the Tooling Ball I can reference the hole origin

I use tooling balls...if I have a tombstone that will need to have angles picked up I make sure I add a toolball location that I can easily reference. Of course I also have all of my hard tooling modeled and positioned properly and my post will output the actual zero coordinates...the tooling ball check is still good for the guys to occasionally double check to..

Surface Finish Blend would be my first goto....second I would create a flat track surface above the are you are looking to cut Surface Finish Flowline the flat track and then project that tool path down onto the surfaces..

We do it more to keep the pressure build up down....there are no chips, so it's really all about the heat & pressure.

We rollform tap Ti Al6v4 all day, everyday....0-80 & 1-72 That big I would likely start with a peck tap and go from there..

The big questions is this...are those moves taking place in a G17,G18 or G19 plane...if they are not, you won't get arc motion

Try checking Coordinate instead of Tool Plane, that will get you 4 positions

We currently have close to a dozen 3D printers in house, Formlabs for plastic printing. They get used for mostly proof of concept things but they will do small lots of parts for a variety of things if production is ramping up to make them. These printers I currently have no access to use. I take care of the setup for printing for our titanium 3D printer, we have an EOS-M400 printer. We are making production parts on it that would be impossible to produce via subtractive machining. I use a combination of Magics RP with the Support Generation add-on as well as EOSPrint2 to choose the laser options on which parts, the exposure settings and communication to the printer. Our general prints take about 20 hours to complete, parts on the plate are right now between 36 & 96 Unfortunately, the nature of the parts and our business I am unable to share and photos. It's been an interesting time learning how to do all of this... I am certainly willing to share any tips, tricks or ideas for those who are doing this as well.

Much depends on how hard you'll need to work it but I have the RTX A-4000 in my laptop and it has served me pretty well.. Some of the 3D printing files I lay out challenge it a bit but that's with 200+ stls laid out....

It will look for points that are good break points for the reposition and tool inspection point. It may be a little longer, it may be a little shorter based on when the tool next repositions... It will just take some time to get used to what it and when it triggers...you can try time or distance and see which you find to be the most consistent for you

Absolutely....I hold my own and I am happy with that....I read some of the stuff others posts and it makes me realize that there is still so much to can be learned.

THe plinout section is almost all modern posts has a sketched portion to do just that plinout #Output to NC of linear movement - feed if sub_is_active & absinc$ = 0, result = force(xabs, yabs) pcan1, pbld, n$, sgfeed, sgplane, `sgcode, sgabsinc, pccdia, pxout, pyout, pzout, pcout, [if motst$, feed], strcantext, pscool, e$ if rpd_typ$ = 7, ptool_insp #Tool Inspection Point the if rpd_typ7$ is the trigger line that sends it to this section ptool_insp #Tool Inspection Point Customization Required #Modify following line to customize tool inspection points pcool_off #Coolant off before tool inspection sav_absinc = absinc$ absinc$ = one pbld, n$, sm05, e$ #Spindle off pbld, n$, sm00,"(CAUTION POST GENERATING MOTION FOR TOOL INSPECTION)", e$ pbld, n$, *sgabsinc, *sg28ref, "Z0.", scoolant, e$ pbld, n$, *sg28ref, "X0.", "Y0.", e$ pbld, n$, sm00, "(INSPECT TOOL)", e$ absinc$ = sav_absinc pbld, n$, *sgcode, *sgabsinc, pwcs, *xabs, *yabs, *speed, *spindle, pgear, e$ pinsp_cool_on #Coolant on after tool inspection pbld, n$, sg43, *tlngno$, *zabs, scoolant, e$ You can edit that as needed to get what you need.

All I will say is it NEVER should have been tied into the Machine group the way it has been....it should have forever remained a separate switch you had to proactively hit

and as I Have said at least 100's of times......don't... It uses copious amounts of system resources to visualize a thread. When I import tooling that has threads, the very first thing I do is get rid of the thread. File under, Just because you can doesn't mean you should. JM2C YMMV

and through all of the good info here.....I'll reiterate, the set-up, rigidity, tooling and machine ALL come into play....use the starting numbers and adjust as is seen fit based on the feedback from the machine and results.. There really isn't a one size fits all answer here....many variables.

The tooling manufacturers numbers are always the best starting point of what a tool is capable of doing....

I typically don't import it into existing files....I imagine it would work the same way... Can't test that at the moment...system is crunching a 3D print estimate

This needs a bump for the pure history of it, the long gone names, what this forum used to be. Thanks Terry for digging this one out... Alex passed back in 2020 but he is still talked about fondly in some circles

Right click in the levels manager >> Save as csv You can then right click in an empty level mangler and import the csv to get default naming structure that you may use