CollegeMachinist
Plastic
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2021
- Location
- Victoria, BC, Canada
Hey all, I've been lurking for a while but this is my first post here.
So my question for everyone is this: Approximately how much of your programming is CAM, and how much is hand coded? EDIT: Lets throw conversational into the mix too.
A little context: I help teach introductory CNC machining to 2nd year mechanical engineering students, who are familiar with CAD (Solidworks mostly), so they pick up CAM relatively easily. Part of the curriculum is teaching them G code, which for me (and probably everyone here) is an obvious thing to learn if you're going to do any CNC machining, but they can't wrap their heads around why they should know how to actually write a program; in their minds, it's kind of like learning how to use a slide rule. So, in order to get more buy in from the students, I want to get some input from people out in industry as to how much hand coding they actually do.
Thanks everyone!
So my question for everyone is this: Approximately how much of your programming is CAM, and how much is hand coded? EDIT: Lets throw conversational into the mix too.
A little context: I help teach introductory CNC machining to 2nd year mechanical engineering students, who are familiar with CAD (Solidworks mostly), so they pick up CAM relatively easily. Part of the curriculum is teaching them G code, which for me (and probably everyone here) is an obvious thing to learn if you're going to do any CNC machining, but they can't wrap their heads around why they should know how to actually write a program; in their minds, it's kind of like learning how to use a slide rule. So, in order to get more buy in from the students, I want to get some input from people out in industry as to how much hand coding they actually do.
Thanks everyone!