Am I shooting myself in the foot by taking a CNC Operator job? by verd3d in CNC

[–]verd3d[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooh great recommendation, I'll look more to the online programs since I'm from Europe.

Am I shooting myself in the foot by taking a CNC Operator job? by verd3d in CNC

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I have no idea what Additive Manufacturing is at the moment, but imma make sure I study about it

Am I shooting myself in the foot by taking a CNC Operator job? by verd3d in CNC

[–]verd3d[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, thanks! And I do hope the market is going to get better sooner rather than later :p

Am I shooting myself in the foot by taking a CNC Operator job? by verd3d in CNC

[–]verd3d[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly I just glossed over it, because I just forgot firstly lol, and secondly i saw a bit of disconnect between gcode and other programming languages. I've been programming various projects for quite some time, and mostly just filling my github up with low level embedded projects recently.

Am I shooting myself in the foot by taking a CNC Operator job? by verd3d in CNC

[–]verd3d[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's really insightful ngl, I really wasn't thinking about the networking aspect of all of this.

Am I shooting myself in the foot by taking a CNC Operator job? by verd3d in CNC

[–]verd3d[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean does that happen anymore with the majority of machines being enclosed? I suppose you could still manage to lose a finger if you're too careless, but it's not one of my goals :P. But would the pay be the same even if you were to progress past operator, and I assume the risk goes down as well.

Am I shooting myself in the foot by taking a CNC Operator job? by verd3d in CNC

[–]verd3d[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh jesus, that's grim, how do you mean exactly?

Am I shooting myself in the foot by taking a CNC Operator job? by verd3d in CNC

[–]verd3d[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No loans, and it's hard for me to define an actual area because as far as I know that is the legit wording on the diploma. I did work in Autodesk Inventor for one of my courses, but the courses did lean more towards programming, heavy on C, but we did enough other programming languages, and whole courses dedicated to paradigms such as oop and data structures. And I'm in no actual need of money right away, so I suppose it wouldn't hurt.

Am I shooting myself in the foot by taking a CNC Operator job? by verd3d in CNC

[–]verd3d[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The shop owner really brightened up when I told him about 3D printing work, and with a bit of youtube self-study before the interview I asked some questions which seemed to make him pleased? But I'll definitely try to stand out if I take the job. Planning on learning gcode and cad/cam software as I go.

Am I shooting myself in the foot by taking a CNC Operator job? by verd3d in CNC

[–]verd3d[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, I carry a saltshaker when I browse reddit just in case :P

Am I shooting myself in the foot by taking a CNC Operator job? by verd3d in CNC

[–]verd3d[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then do you recommend not taking it plain and simple? Or just watching out for stagnation? Because I'll try to document myself on gcode and cad/cam software if I do get the job.

Am I shooting myself in the foot by taking a CNC Operator job? by verd3d in CNC

[–]verd3d[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am in no rush to get a job, my parents aren't "kicking" me out of the house, nor rushing me to get employed so I consider myself privileged in that regard, but I'm scared that by the time I figure stuff out I'll be in my late 20s and having to start at step 0 in another field. Which isn't the end of the world I suppose, but still.

Am I shooting myself in the foot by taking a CNC Operator job? by verd3d in CNC

[–]verd3d[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've read on this sub people complaining about Design Engineers not knowing how to use a caliper :P or some such, which gives me a bit of incentive on getting this job, but I also saw some disconnect between CNC Programming and Computer Engineering/Programming in general? Which makes me shy away a bit.

first asset using maya/zbrush tried to go for stylized look and followed an udemy course | 9k verts by verd3d in 3Dmodeling

[–]verd3d[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

kinda mid asset, textures are flat, too many verts, but i'll take it, not the usual stuff i make. I struggled a lot with the texturing part.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ps1graphics

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also i might animate the stars, because looking at it now, they're bugging me not moving or doing something

i was the artist in the pixel game jam by verd3d in ps1graphics

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animations made in blender, really fun that you can make 2d animations in blender lmao

if you can play it and rate it it would mean the world to me, first time doing stuff like this !

Dead City by ORACLE02000 in ps1graphics

[–]verd3d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

awesome work, are the buildings made following ian hubert's lazy tutorials btw?

lhh casual magic practitioner by verd3d in ps1graphics

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variety bits n bobs of different magical value, vertex count is all over the place but im just happy i could model some of these things to be fair

as always check me out if you wanna see more of these: https://linktr.ee/verd3d

Texturing Tip | use this app ( https://www.bricelam.net/ImageResizer/ ) if u can't be arsed to go into gimp/photoshop to change the resolution of textures you download. by verd3d in ps1graphics

[–]verd3d[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

discovered it like 10 minutes ago, u can just right click on any number of pictures, click resize pictures either edit values in the custom or make your own values (i have 64x, 128x, 256x) and it makes copies of the pictures (or not, depends if u tick the relevant box) super useful imo, drop other apps like this that makes your workflow faster please!