It was usually taking about 1-2 weeks straight. It took me 4 weeks on the last part because of an instability issue with NX10 (worst decision ever was to upgrade btw), but actual up time on the application was really only about 2 weeks. Granted, I was having 4-5 crashes a day and with no IT support and no one else in the shop willing to run UG to help troubleshoot it, it ended up being a Windows Security update causing a memory leak that would crash the machine every hour or so and destroy my toolpaths

I see my counterparts with Mastercam with completed programs running within a week.

I have to ask, is this normal? Now, mind you, I pick apart my toolpaths etc, because I have found some gouging issues in cavity mill depending on what geometry the part has, amongst some other strangeness. So, in, general, I expect it to take a little bit more time, however, 3 times as long?

Anyone know any good ways around this, or is this just the nature of the beast?