Re: Basic programming question
Originally Posted by
Peteuk
The interesting part is that there is no Cad-Cam. Everything is done by manual input, by us 3.
Interesting ? I'd find that frustrating.
I ran mills for a company that employed 3 people in a CAD (Solidworks). These guys worked with in-house parts and also did reverse engineering (knock-offs) with Coordinate-Measuring Machine etc.
That department handed printed dimensioned drawings to the floor where we had machines with conversational controls, mostly Mazatrol and some Milltronics.
The guy running the machining department eventually convinced management to invest in cam and networking after much butting of heads.
Prior to that I worked for a company where operators wrote g-code at the machine and punched everything in at the control. It was interesting work but it was inefficient and no 2 operators seemed to program in the same style.
Anyone who says "It only goes together one way" has no imagination.