Old School Machinist

[jhuddleston]

I am looking to move into the 21st century. I currently have a manual machine shop and we are looking to buy a few CNC lathes we already have 2 Hurco mills. As you know the Hurcos are conversational. Needless to say I have had no need to learn G Code. Does anyone know of any type of online training to help learn simple 2 axis programming. I know what a lot of the codes a areand what action they preform I just need to be able to apply the functions and program a string that will work .

[g-codeguy]

Amazon sells books by Peter Smid at reasonable prices. I just ordered his book on Macro B programming, a little beyond your scope at the moment, but did note he had several others listed there on programming as well.

Many machine manuals also give G-code programming examples. The good thing about this is the G-codes are the correct ones for their machine. G0, G1, G2, G3, G4 are pretty standard on any machine. Canned cycles is one place where the builder decides what he wants to use. M-codes can very as well.

However, that isn't really too important. Learning the proper way to use the codes is. Then it is a simple matter of replacing one code for another.

There is also at least one online school. I have the link saved at home, and will try to add it here for you later tonight.

[Geof]

Have a look at this.

http://technology.calumet.purdue.edu/met/mfet/275/

If you already know machining it is hardly worthwhile taking any courses, just get the machine manual and start doing things. Ask questions here and you will get plenty of answers.

I taught myself G-code starting from scratch in only a few weeks.

[g-codeguy]

True. It won't be hard to learn as long as you already understand machining. That is the harder part. Like you already said, "I know what a lot of the codes are and what action they preform I just need to be able to apply the functions and program a string that will work ."

That is not hard at all.

Here is another link. http://www.universalclass.com/i/subj...trial-tech.htm
Just in case you still want to take a class.

[jhuddleston]

Thanks G codeguy and Geoff I orderes the peter Smid books and started looking at the purdue course. I will look into the other course today. Thanks again for your help.