Originally Posted by ggborgen  Still programming by hand and I like that way, I feel pointing and clicking on cartoons to write a program would be boring. But I'm ignorit about cam systems, never used one. But I see alot of cam users asking basic G code questions  |
Everyone who calls themselves "Machinists" should spend at least a few months on the manuals. When they can do that, they should spend the next six months learning how to program manually.
Maybe then I would let them touch the CAM software. Maybe.
But to be honest, I hardly hand program at all anymore. The stuff I'm doing now is virtually impossible to code by hand. But when the CAM system does something I don't like (which is often), I can key in a few moves to fix it. The guy that can't read the code is hopeless.