The latest release will upgrade either Mill Production, Mill Professional or it will patch Mill Expert software from Onecnc, just in case you had not heard from another source.
Its great to see those tweaks coming in! I got at least one of my wishes so far, they did add a Max spindle speed in the material List screen, so be sure you check that so that you will get feedrates that are capped at what your machine spindle can actually run at. Minor perhaps, but convenient
They have also fixed the tap tables in the tool list, so that the correct pitch (as a decimal) is retained now. Use this figure in combination with a somewhat lower setting in the Max spindle speed option to get an accurate feedrate for "floating tap holders", which is what I use quite frequently.
Has anyone got any inkling as to what the trick is to get the correct machining time put out on the job sheet? It seems like I have to set my machine rapid speed to 10 to get a reasonable figure, but I just don't understand why the programmed feedrates are not the ones being used to make this calculation. Anyone set me straight on this, please?
I see some new parameters in NC post settings, Start and Finish format, called Block Start - X and so on. I haven't figured out if this has a general purpose usage or not?
One thing I'd still like to see, is when creating a new custom cycle, if you have parameters that you want to see repeated in the "mid lines" area, basically just copies of what was also inserted in the Start lines field, you don't see the variable substitutions made anywhere except for the very first instance. I guess the assumption is made that every cycle is modal, but such is not the case. Some of these pesky little things have to be repeated over and over.