To follow up on the dropped tenon shoulder cuts I think it's solved. Big thanks to Kenneth.
My .25" M.C. compression was set up as .253" in diameter. Changing the bit diameter to .25" allowed the cut to be made. Why it didn't throw up a tooling error I have no idea. The tooling tolerance setting is set to .01", also.
Spoke to the Thermwood shop and the owner mentioned that the pocket cut for the tenon shoulder has a boundary and perhaps it is becouse the boundary is at .25" and not .253"? That would make me wonder, though.
Why no tooling errors?
Is a .375" diam. bit not able to mill out a shoulder for a .25" long tenon? I would like to think it could.
Does the code not get written from the data in the tooling? Why would it skip the pocket altogether if the tolerance is set to .01" and my tooling is only over by .003"?
I'll drop a line to TW and let them know the results.
Tim
P.S: Email from TW just arrived as follows:
Tim,
Try changing your tool diameter from .253" to .25" or less. This should
take care of the tenon problem.
If it doesn't, let me know.
Thanks,