jeffrey atkinson
Aluminum
- Joined
- Mar 1, 2009
- Location
- philippines
Hi I am from the uk and now live in the Philippines so it was great to find this forum
I bought my first cnc machine a Bostomatic 300 and a cam system in 1977 the cam was Olliveti GTL3 on mini-computor (PC's were not around them), so I went on a GTL3 programming course before the Bosto arrived. the biggest attraction after the course was all the calculations it could perform and I did not have to understand G-codes. The course told me that the CAM program must always be the master.
My question is why did this practice disapear when cam went from command language to solid modeling
I asked recently to most of the leading cam producers for a system as follows
CAM source program to always be the master programs
No editing on machine tool control
No editing on cnc control program
No need to read G-codes
Bearing in mind I had run the above for 20 years on Visi-Mill 4.8
None of them came back
Also some of our spares work had 6 A0 sheets, I do not want to or are not capable to have to re-draw in cad
Also is there a up to date cam system that still has a command type system on board
Jigborejeff
I bought my first cnc machine a Bostomatic 300 and a cam system in 1977 the cam was Olliveti GTL3 on mini-computor (PC's were not around them), so I went on a GTL3 programming course before the Bosto arrived. the biggest attraction after the course was all the calculations it could perform and I did not have to understand G-codes. The course told me that the CAM program must always be the master.
My question is why did this practice disapear when cam went from command language to solid modeling
I asked recently to most of the leading cam producers for a system as follows
CAM source program to always be the master programs
No editing on machine tool control
No editing on cnc control program
No need to read G-codes
Bearing in mind I had run the above for 20 years on Visi-Mill 4.8
None of them came back
Also some of our spares work had 6 A0 sheets, I do not want to or are not capable to have to re-draw in cad
Also is there a up to date cam system that still has a command type system on board
Jigborejeff