Hood:
I have the guys at Dolphin working on it now for me so that should get resolved in the next few days. In the mean time it isnt difficult to edit the code file, just a pain in the butt to have to do it. On the first file I created I ran the code in air to see how it responded. Everything worked just fine, however there was never any change in feed rate, and on a lathe operation there are several since the machine goes into rapid on the backpath, then slows down for the cutting operation.... that never happened, but it does now that I edited the code file.
I have sent a copy of the edited and unedited code to Dolphin for them to see what is needed and they will be able to fix it for me, but what really amazes me is that no one else seems to have this issue - maybe I am their only customer running Mach?
I had several other issues getting started as well, since they sold me a dual licence for the mill and the lathe, the licence file was never setup properly for lathe work, which is what I really needed. Initially when I tried to run the post to generate a file - there were NO posts that showed up in the post window, it was blank, although there were posts in the folder. It turned out that the developers had changed V12 to look for V12 posts and all the posts were V11, that is has now been fixed - 3 weeks later.
After that, when I eventually tried to generate a code file - I got an error and the post processor deleted all but about 9 blocks of code...... thanks very much. That also got fixed - about a week later, apparently the licence file was never setup to allow me to do lathe work....
So now - almost everything works except the post processor doesn't produce code that works properly......
All in all, I think that Partmaster is a great program for lathe work, very flexible and easy to run - once you understand it, if you don't have all these issues. That said, Rodney at Dolphin has been great to help me out with good customer service, but it is still annoying since none of these problems should have ever risen had their developers and programmers been on their game..... based on this experience I don't know if I will ever use the mill program, especially since I have Aspire. For the price, Aspire is the king of engraving programs IMHO.
I'll let you know if I need any help going forward, thanks for the reply.
Pete