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I've had this issue come and go a couple times without resolution. While drip feeding it a program using DNC4U it will randomly slide hold. Some times it goes an hour, some times a few minutes. I can...

UPDATE: So, the slide hold issue solved itself but "0" and "- =" keys stopped working. As it turns out, zero is pretty useful.

We recently had to swap out the keyboard and circuit board assembly because we were having a lot of issues. Jog was crunchy, the table would move in the wrong axis when jogging, complete computer...

This wasn't a problem in the past but it seems to have started in newer version of mastercam post files.

My G-code (not that is matters but this is coming from helix bore to thread mill):
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I've greatly improved my finish, thanks for the help guys. It does lead me to one more question. I'm using the "surface finish constant scallop" and it looks great. I'm DNCing the the programs to my...

The total tolerance was set to .001 and line/arc filtering was unchecked. Smoothing Settings is also unchecked. Seems like this can be improved. I'm on a 3 axis Fadal with a 88HS controller, she's...

Great, I'll give it a try. Thanks for the help!

I'm using a 3 flute 1/2" ball mill to do some surfacing in a mold. First I do a rough surface finish 0.007" from the drive then a surface finish contour at 0.007" from drive to prep the cavity for...

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

I have a fadal VMC4020 and it's a great machine but I've noticed recently that the right side of the table is sitting roughly 0.003" lower than the rest of the table. Center and left read the same....

When cutting any time there is a transition on the y-axis I get a step in my part. For instance when cutting a cylinder my part is dead on across (+- 0.0005in) but front to back it measures out a few...