Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Why is a Gcode standard important???

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From: "ballendo" <ballendo@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 9:21 PM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Why is a Gcode standard important???


> Jerry,
>
> I'm not Ted, and I'm going sequentially through the posts,so there
> may already be an answer "up ahead", but here goes:
>
> No, entering/executing one line at a time is not conversational
> programming. That would be an example of MDI (Manual Data Interface)
> programming of the machine.
>
> Conversational programming is so named because the operator has a
> text-based or graphics-based (or both) "conversation" with the
> control to make a program.
>
> The control asks "questions"(again by text,graphics, or both) and the
> operator "answers". You might begin by selecting from a group of
> possible "typical" machining operations. For example, drilling a hole:
>
> You select "drill" from the list.
> The control responds "single or multiple holes?" You select mutiple.
> The control asks "straight line ar arc?" You select straight line.
> The control asks "number of holes/distance between?" You continue
> this process, making selections and/or giving numerical "answers"
> until all the necessary conditions for what you want to do have been
> met.
>
> At the end of this conversation, you can have the control run the
> code you have just created/defined; or you can have
> another "conversation" for the next detail of the part, continuing
> until the entire part is completely programmed/coded.
>
> Some controls will create/show a gcode program OF the conversations'
> output, others will simply run an internal program without showing it
> to you(derived from the conversation(s). In these controls, you may
> have a text representation of you conversations, like:
>
> start
> tool 1
> drill hole
> drill hole
> tool 3
> pocket
> ...
> ...
> end
>
> This is considered by many to be a simplified way to create code,
> somewhere between a full cad/cam and the basic MDI. Several
> commercial cnc mfrs. have "made a name" for themselves by having a
> good conversational means of creating programs for their machines.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Ballendo
>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "Carol & Jerry Jankura"
> <jerry.jankura@s...> wrote:
> > Ted:
> >
> > Could you define what is meant by "Converstational programming?" Is
> this the
> > same as, for example, TurboCNC's allowing you to enter and execute
> one line
> > of G-Code at a time? Or is it simething further than that? Perhaps
> a few
> > example conversations would be helpful to my understanding.
>
>
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