I've been doing small stuff by hand. Round & Square Pockets, surface milling, drilling. Easier to do than dealing with software. Anything more than that, I need CAM. I insert lots of M00's between lines for that first run & cut air the first time too.
CNC was originally designed for hand coding. It's good to know how to do it even if you have a CAM package. Anything more than 20-50 lines I'll let the computer do. |