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RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] lathe program

Posted by Tim Goldstein
on 2000-09-17 14:21:54 UTC
Vector does a very nice job as a lathe programmer including roughing.

Tim
[Denver, CO]

> Well, I am going to say that my former statement about BobCad 17 as a
> lathe program was in error. My opinion has changed. Why? I found the
> REAL manual. The printed manual was vague and mentioned very little
> about actually using the lathe capabilities of version 17. The real nuts
> and bolts information on how to use it was in the help files. I just
> assumed that the printed manual would tell it all. WRONG! So I printed
> up what was in the help file and am now a happy camper. I am making
> chips.Lots of chips. It generated the code to rough out the part. There
> were 657 lines of gcode to rough this piece.

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