Man Caves

[Skuzzy]

Gotta love G-code.

[VonMessa]

is that a meth lab?








 

Um, no...

I brew beer  

It makes my brother happy as you can see...

[Belial]

friend of mine has 4 of those bad boys, one day he needed help running some parts for a military contract he has ( bomb pins) he showed me how to run it and set it up, how to mic parts every so often to make sure they were all in spec, i ran over 5000 pieces helping him out and man it really got my interest in machining, i would love to have that as a career, question   why were you dry cutting as opposed to using cooling fluid

Yea once a part is programed theres not much to do other than push start and walk away.
I can teach someone to touch off the face of a part and change offsets in a few minutes and then they can get going.

I've been machining for 4 years and running the CNC for 1...I run a waterjet too.

[RTHolmes]

 

[VonMessa]

Agreed its alot to learn lol. And the learning curve can be expensive. I worked at a machine shop out of HS while going to college. I use to set mine up to run well off the face of the part, as a dry run. I learned this is the best method, as crashing my Okuma turret into the spindle did not make for a happy employer.  Amazing how important decimal placement is  

Which one? 

[mbailey]

Which one?  

Peak Precision in Lansdale, We did defense contractor and aerospace work, (Lockheed, Northrup etc.... Honeywell parts, medical stuff and even a  made roller coaster parts for Philadelphia Tobogan (Lansdale). We were right next to a shop that did large machining ( I mean friggin huge parts ) for the oil industry (if i remember correctly) , They had mills with tables that were the size of the footprint of my house......really cool stuff.
 The company i worked for  has since moved to Hatfield.
http://www.peakprecisioncnc.com/

[Belial]

WHats more complicated cnc code or coding a game?

[Krupinski]

Um, no...

I brew beer  

It makes my brother happy as you can see...

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PHILLIES!#@!@!@@!@!@!@!#!@@!@!!  

[mbailey]

LMAO I've almost made that mistake bailey 18,000 pages of code and this can be the one that crashes your 250k machine

G00 X8.
G00 Z8

See that Z without a decimal after it?  That told the machine to move .0008 away from the chuck and index the turret instead of 8"

CRAAAASH  

You must have been there  , thats about exactly what i did. Never in my life have i heard such an ungodly noise. Sounded like a freight train ran into a brick wall. Im sure the guy next to me pooped himself a little bit  . I Rammed the turret into the spindle and a sand casting used for pneumatic pumps. Needless to say, i spent the rest of that day and another deburring stuff while the Okuma tech (that my boss paid to fly in) fixed the machine. He kept looking over at me and shaking his head every time he removed a part( or what was left of a part) of the machine. I think he felt like choking me for my boss  

[VonMessa]

Peak Precision in Lansdale, We did defense contractor and aerospace work, (Lockheed, Northrup etc.... Honeywell parts, medical stuff and even a  made roller coaster parts for Philadelphia Tobogan (Lansdale). We were right next to a shop that did large machining ( I mean friggin huge parts ) for the oil industry (if i remember correctly) , They had mills with tables that were the size of the footprint of my house......really cool stuff.
 The company i worked for  has since moved to Hatfield.
http://www.peakprecisioncnc.com/

I know exactly where they are 

[Belial]

You must have been there  , thats about exactly what i did. Never in my life have i heard such an ungodly noise. Sounded like a freight train ran into a brick wall. Im sure the guy next to me pooped himself a little bit  . I Rammed the turret into the spindle and a sand casting used for pneumatic pumps. Needless to say, i spent the rest of that day and another deburring stuff while the Okuma tech (that my boss paid to fly in) fixed the machine. He kept looking over at me and shaking his head every time he removed a part( or what was left of a part) of the machine. I think he felt like choking me for my boss  

It only takes a second to crash..remember the reset button won't stop a turret index only the E stop will.

And we have 5% 25% 50% 100% rapid traverse so I always run on 5% when proofing

[Skuzzy]

WHats more complicated cnc code or coding a game?

They both have thier challenges.  For me it is easier to read C code than G code.  They are both highly structured. At any given time either one can be hard or easy to read.  It all depends on what is being accomplished.

A good game, with a lot of depth, will easily exceed a million lines of code.  In G-code, that would be a pretty complex part.


I rigged in a panic switch on my mill to shut it completely down if I see something bad about to happen.  I do have a zero stop, which will shut down the servos if the head tries to move to a negative index.  I just have to remember to set it when I index the head.  That switch has saved me alot of bits and chucks.

[Belial]

They both have thier challenges.  For me it is easier to read C code than G code.  They are both highly structured. At any given time either one can be hard or easy to read.  It all depends on what is being accomplished.

A good game, with a lot of depth, will easily exceed a million lines of code.  In G-code, that would be a pretty complex part.


I rigged in a panic switch on my mill to shut it completely down if I see something bad about to happen.  I do have a zero stop, which will shut down the servos if the head tries to move to a negative index.  I just have to remember to set it when I index the head.  That switch has saved me alot of bits and chucks.

You would think there would be a parameter you could set to not let it go past the chuck jaw point in the -Z 

[Skuzzy]

You would think there would be a parameter you could set to not let it go past the chuck jaw point in the -Z  

That is what I thought when I was putting my mill together.  I am so happy with the zero stop, I am going to incorporate it into the other two axises.

The other nice thing about the stop switch is it stops the computer as well so I see the line of code that caused the problem.  I used to have to search through it, unless I was watching it when it happened.

I can pretty much walk away when i am proofing now.  No more damaged bits (or worse) and if it stops, I know exactly what caused it.  WOOHOO!

[bagrat]

Um, no...

I brew beer  

It makes my brother happy as you can see...

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A ta-152 on the label ehh? is that cuz it gives you the runs?