rE:Re:RE: programming by hand

Bill,

Excellent post!

Ballendo

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I work almost exclusively with ProE files and ProE generated
iges files for machining mostly 2.5 D parts. I machine parts
directly from the geometry files provided, usually before
prints are even generated.The biggest problem I had in the
beginning was convincing the 10 or so mechanical engineers
that the geometry they were creating needed to represent the
actual part they wanted me to machine. this meant that the
model file needed to have all the geometry set to the
nominal of whatever tolerance they wanted. Typically, they
would draw something at 3 inches and then they would
manually dimension the print with a 3 inch plus 0 minus .010
tolerance.<snip>