phew! I'm pleased to hear you say that jazz! Is just me being far too ambitious with it. I will have another play tomorrow night and get those speeds down. what kind of speed would be a conservative setting? also this may sound stupid. I can change the feed speed whilst cutting in vectric whilst setting up my toolpath. Is there a separate option in maxh to adjust the rapid movements in between cuts? or is this dictated purely by feed settings? guessing there's something in mach3 for this?

Thanks again and appreciate your opinion jazz. was beginning to feel open wallet surgery about to take place ;-) .

thank you