The insert on the screen is the insert on the sheet
Two corrections to the machining selector on the day it shipped: the turning scene draws the insert the specification actually recommends, and a cut described bigger than the stock it was described against is now said out loud.
21 September 2026. Both of these were found by sitting down and using the selector on a real workspace, not by running its tests. The tests were green over the first one.
The picture said one thing and the sheet said another
- A milling answer names a tool, a turning answer names an insert, and the scene only ever looked for the tool. On a lathe it found neither and quietly fell back to its own stand-in: an eighty degree insert on a wide pocket, beside a specification recommending a fifty five degree one at half the size.
- Nothing looked broken, which is what made it worth fixing first. A reader believes a picture, and a picture that contradicts the sheet beside it is worse than no picture.
- The answer is now read back into the scene in one place, and the line under the tool is a row off the specification word for word. A test walks every operation the selector has and fails if any answer names a tool the scene cannot find.
A cut bigger than the part is now said out loud
- A forty five millimetre slot in stock you said was forty millimetres thick used to be answered as though both figures were true. So did a hole out of the back of a blind part, a finished diameter bigger than the bar it is turned from, a bore that leaves no wall and a pass longer than the bar it runs along.
- Both figures are yours, so the answer names the pair that disagree rather than choosing between them, and it stays a full answer: the tables do not stop working because two numbers contradict each other.
- It is checked only against a size you actually gave. Skip the part step and the stand-in on the screen is a drawing aid, never evidence. A hole drilled through is exempt, because coming out of the far side is the point of it.
Smaller
- The note under the part step said a block was assumed whatever stock form you had picked, in front of a bar.