Re: Quick and Dirty One-Offs? - learning

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Kichman"
<billkichman@c...> wrote:

> Very funny actually Charles, but I meant...what do people typically

do,

> design directly to g-code or do some design in a cad package and

generate

> g-code from that. I am just trying to get some experience with g-

code as

> painlessly as possible.
> Of course a pencil is needed for initial layout though :-)

If you are looking for gaining experiance, I have always said do
simple stuff by hand coding.

Find something you need to put a hole into. do circular
interoplation, tool offset, rough and finish cut. make the part.

find some square, a keyway, heatsink or pocket or something, feed
rates, cutting depts, tool offsets, rough and finish cuts.

The software is not hard, I use Excel for most of my work, but do
some in WORD.

As you learn the basics, you will one day be really happy you can
look at a couple hundred lines of code and KNOW what is happening.


My 2 cents.

Dave