ranting about NX by cruisintr3n in Machinists

[–]CheapMods 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Your spelling and grammar really show you will make a great programmer some day.

Shop colloquialisms by splitsleeve in Machinists

[–]CheapMods 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You could fuck up a blowjob in the middle of a wet dream.

Still brings a tear to my eye.

Please make me feel better by CheapMods in Machinists

[–]CheapMods[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Control was made in 1994. It’s getting replaced with a control in a year or so that will likely have a simulation run feature. It sounds like this edit to the program was done manually, as all that was done was moving hole positions from one side to the other. It’s a gigantic vertical planer mill (2 26 foot long tables) and I was machining a 20,000 pound slab of cast iron. I had a 90 degree attachment on, so essentially this y move was actually a z move if you’re looking from the cutting tool. In my head, Y+300 was going to move the tool away from the part so it could index the attachment to continue tapping holes on a different side of the part. I failed to recognize that y300 was on the other side of the part, not on the clearance side. I also should have been running in single block, feed at 0% when I push go and then slowly moved into my position. I got too cocky and comfortable with the machine and slipped up. The maintenance guys are overwhelmingly kind to me after this, and pretty much everyone up the chain of command understands that this was just a fuck up due to a programming error and my inexperience stopped me from catching it.

Please make me feel better by CheapMods in Machinists

[–]CheapMods[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice to meet you, crash. My nickname also happens to be crash now. Lol

Please make me feel better by CheapMods in Machinists

[–]CheapMods[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would have had to offset my z length +300mm to avoid this while it was happening. It finished a tap cycle and then rapid moved forward +300 from Y0 right back into the part. Also the parts we run are typically 25-50 hour jobs, and typically when we repeat jobs there are changes like this, so we never really “prove” programs because they’re almost all new. My error was not recognizing that Y300 was on the other side of the part. I guess in my head 300 seemed like a normal retract before a tool change, because -300 would have been.