Fish,
Running a Horizontal years ago is when I learned all the advantages of 4th axis. In business for myself now, my pockets are too shallow to do that yet but that is on my wish list. There are shops in my area that use MC, but you know how it sometimes has to go, they don't share much info. when they have a good thing, and don't want more competition.
As far as the memory portion of your message, I used subroutines to keep things shorter on the horizontal I was programming, but I had a good deal of background in subs. so it was easy for me. When I checked out MC & others last time they don't support that form much any more, I guess because of larger computer memory on the newer machines. I will tell you that Excalibur still lets you use that capability pretty well, if you know how to do them. They have more buttons to push but that is also allowing you to get to more of a variety of capabilities in many areas where other softwares will possibly choke. |