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I'm not a Fanuc fan either,
I will try to keep you in mind if and when we decide to get rid of them.

Thanks, Jim Dawson, I shall give that a shot.
As far as what machine specifically we are talking about, it's a Hardinge Conquest 42 with live tools. It has Fanuc controls and the Y axis.
Must just...

Very informative Jim Dawson, I appreciate the lesson,
So basically you are telling me the G00 Coordinate axis moves are in the firmware and hard to manipulate, and
on my Hardinge, it's going to...

Warning received Algirdas
I will take it into consideration.

Thanks, rcs60
Yes it is a safe index call, I created a new one on the second program and called it M98 P3

old one looked like this

0003
G01 G40 G98 T0
G98X12.0 Z7.5 Y0 F400.0
M99

Thank you, Superman, however, based on my test runs on this part, changing every high-end move to G00 saved about 45 sec per part, and on this particular machine, it's pretty obvious that it's...

Hopefully, you don't mind my little story here before we get into this small, novice problem I'm having here.
I was just promoted to lathe line supervisor in my small little shop and have been...