[HuFlungDung]

Hi Bob,

I'm glad to hear that you like it.

One thing I was thinking about the other day, but forgot to come here and post about it. I was reading about "outstanding machine crash stories" over at the mastercam forums. This reminded me of how I like the verification function that is part of the Camsoft GUI, that gives you an instant wireframe toolpath view generated from your nc code, so you can pick up on the more obvious blunders when doing some kinds of editing right at the machine.

I was thinking though, about retrofitting a mill using CNC professional and got to wondering how much of a pain is it going to be to wait for the Camsoft verification function to read through a big program while loading it up?

Suppose I wanted to load a 10 meg program, how long would that take? I only have a lathe set up right now, so I've never experienced much of a wait for any lathe program to load. Do you have any experience to relate about this?

Have you used the "smooth on" function for mill? How is it? Again, I find it nice for lathe, but the typical line segments I've been using are quite long, complete profiles, so that doesn't give it a real workout. I'd like to know that I'd really get what I'm imagining, so far as smooth mill performance on very short 3d segments, at higher feedrates.