Originally Posted by
Mouldmaker
Everybody is talking about rumours and others giving an opinion about things they have never worked on. I do not think that you can learn how to properly operate a control in a couple of months. We have our latest control, the TNC 426, since 2001 and we are still discovering new options that we did not know about.
Rogue, first of all, what type of control are you talking about? Heidenhain have at least 20 different type of controls and they are one of the most commonly used in Europe.
Heidenhain controls can be used with two different type of programming language. The normal G-code and the conversational programme. The control can be switched to the different type of language quite easily and will also translate a G-code programme into a conversational programme automatically.
When we had any type of problems on these controls, we would just send Heidenhain an e-mail and this would be answered by latest the following day.