philipm; I have to compliment you on your patience explaining things. I am tempted to shriek READ THE ****ING MANUAL YOU ******.

The Haas control does have REPLACE.

Also regarding the CLIPBOARD I have discovered a lot of people do not realise it is possible to load from a floppy or USB drive into the CLIPBOARD by using the correct program number. This means you can insert entire sections into an existing program very easily. Also it is possible to run the program that is in the CLIPBOARD. Very useful for editing or checking some moves on tool 20 with a long program without having to wait for RESTART to scan through the program.

I don't understand the complaint about waiting for the toolchanger. Both my VF2s with the SMTC move the next tool into position for the change before the spindle has pulled up to Z zero and stopped so there is no delay.