Hi Art
A was thinking (i do sometime), if i use a diamant of 30 degree (for example) and i would use the same feedrate in X an Z direction the tooltip Will not like to cut in X direction because the force on the tooltip is to big in relationship to the Z direction.
On the other hand, if i use a grove tool the force relationship is in the opposite direction.
What i try to say that it is almost unavoidable to give tools a parameter table (what the program can work with) if we want to use a tool in the most useful way.
Greetings:
Willem