Re: CNC scripting stuff....

They were not CNC machines, they were NC machines, slight difference
there. The first NC machine appeared at an IMTS show in Chicago
right around 1955.

Keep in mind, NC machines were a result of some of this:

world war 2
Helicopters
Quest for faster air planes
and difficult to machine tooling

NC and more currently CNC were originally intended to make complex
parts easier to machine. So, their roots are in "One-off"
manufacturing. Ever since I have been involved with CNC, I have
been fighting off the perception that CNC is for high-production
work. While it certainly can be used in production, it is very well
suited for one-off manufacturing.





--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Alex Holden <alex@l...>
wrote:

> On 17 May 2005, at 5:58 pm, lcdpublishing wrote:
> > Perhaps this was already talked about, but have you considered

looking

> > at the old APT languages? This was what was used prior to

CAD/CAM for

> > a high level language. It was a very powerful language for
> > programming a CNC machine of just about any number of axis -

very cool

> > stuff, but frankly, CAD/CAM ate it alive when it appeared on the
> > market.
>
> Very interesting. I didn't know CNC machine tools even existed in
> 1956 when APT became the first programming language to be defined

as

> an ANSI standard...
>
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