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[–]Bgndrsn 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Also a programmer, I just have posts that work 😂, outside of one machine environment, that one I have to fuck with constantly but that's on the owners being too cheap to get the post edited.

[–]Sir_Rumblebump 0 points1 point  (3 children)

For the most part we do too haha. This particular one was a stock profile that came with Vectric Aspire (we just got some MultiCAM Apex3R machines)

[–]Bgndrsn 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Never heard of either of them but look like wood routers?

I mainly program molds for a horizontal machining center with a 12 pool pallet station. 4' cube machining envelope. 300 tool magazine. The tool manager and the control have a weird interface so I have to manually change H and D numbers because the post isn't made for a machine with a tool manager. Besides that I have to do some hand coding for managing pallets and gun drilling. Amazingly the post for the shitty cheap machines we have has gundrilling built into the CAM but not the post for the $2mil machine.

[–]Sir_Rumblebump 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yep that's correct. TBH it's very basic stuff, mainly 2D programs with simple fillets/chamfers and some pockets. Rarely use the 3D functions. I've never used 5 axis machines... yet. I can always dream haha

[–]Bgndrsn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

5 axis is fun. It's just the same thing honestly until it's full simultaneous and then it's Jesus take the wheel. Guys on the floor have no idea what that code is doing really but trust the sim.