georgee1
Aluminum
- Joined
- May 19, 2014
- Location
- chicago suburb, il, usa
I was hired to work along side and eventually replace an out-sourced programmer that programs our (1) haas vf2ss mill. The owner has given me the responsibility of taking over their new mill department due to no one else having experience or not wanting the stress. This place has transitioned from a screw-machine shop to an all CNC swiss lathe shop + a haas mill. I had experience in setting up Swiss lathes and a bit of experience setting up mori mills and a ycm. My only experience programming on the field was at my last spot it was a mold shop and I'm finishing up my last mastercam class at community college.
I got some general questions, I don't want to get into too much detail or ask for industry secrets.
-I want to know if it is best to program my parts from the center as opposed to a corner?
-I also wanted to know what type of work-holding is used in production shops or than vises?
-I'm considering asking the owner if we could switch to Mastercam for our milling and euro-tech lathes.
The jobs coming are extremely simple dimensionally. The general manager purchased Paws work holding fixtures from the guys in Michigan. I'm nervous about jumping into these fixtures because I haven't yet explored how to program them or what reference point to use if I take these fixture/jaws on and off the table. I'm not sure if software plays a big factor with our capabilities with fixtures. They use Esprit, actually everyone programs manually and no one uses the software. Any tips or things to think about would be appreciated.
I got some general questions, I don't want to get into too much detail or ask for industry secrets.
-I want to know if it is best to program my parts from the center as opposed to a corner?
-I also wanted to know what type of work-holding is used in production shops or than vises?
-I'm considering asking the owner if we could switch to Mastercam for our milling and euro-tech lathes.
The jobs coming are extremely simple dimensionally. The general manager purchased Paws work holding fixtures from the guys in Michigan. I'm nervous about jumping into these fixtures because I haven't yet explored how to program them or what reference point to use if I take these fixture/jaws on and off the table. I'm not sure if software plays a big factor with our capabilities with fixtures. They use Esprit, actually everyone programs manually and no one uses the software. Any tips or things to think about would be appreciated.