Cant set Z value

[dcroose]

Hi All,
I am a newbe to eMachineShop software and so far I am IMPRESSED with the power and ease of use. I am a 73 year young retired engineer and I wish I had something like this 20 years ago. I would have a lot more hair on my head than I do now if I had had something even close to this back then.
How some ever... I have run into a problem. In my design I have a 4 inch, .5 inch diameter rod with a .32 hole running through the center line of the rod. So far so good. How I want to put 12, .01 inch wide, .022 deep slots in the inside wall of the .32 hole running the length of the tube. I make the slots, do an intersection and delete the unwanted lines so I have 12 arcs connecting the 12 slots. I am attaching the drawing entitled FillTube.ems. Now I have an enclosed area .342 inches in diameter consisting of the througn hole with 12 slots radiating out from it like petals on a flower (tiny petals). I would like to do a -3.938 z axis so the bottom 1/16th inch of the tube is partially closed except for the flower witch is the bottom of the tube.
However eMachineShop pukes at my design and tell me the z axis is "not supported"! What the blank does that mean and how do I get it fixed so my little petals are supported. I did a previous design (also enclosed as Tube1.ems) with 8 slots made from .062 holes bisected by the id of the hole and the z axis was just fine. Are my slots too small for the software or what?

Thanks in advance,
dcroose

[Tech2]

You can't set the Z value for a comment line. You need to first select and change the line to Auto via menu Line | Machine.

[dcroose]

Thank you much,
It never occured to me that the software would csarry over from commenting on one drawing and then starting a new drawing and making some of the lines of the new design comments, but not all of them. I wonder how it selected what lines to make comments and which to not.

dcroose

[Tech3]

Last machine (Auto, bend, comments...) used is assigned to any new new line you add to the design. But when you start new design first line you will add would have Auto machine assigned.