Kharn
Aluminum
- Joined
- Feb 18, 2018
G'day
First year apprentice Machinist here, I'm 12weeks in.
Working at my families small machine shop (2x CNC Turning & 1x CNC Milling 3 Axis).
The 2 CNC Turning machines are SEIKI HT 25R & SEIKI HT 25S (Milling Machine Unknown will attempt to find out tomorrow).
Summary of my history.
Working in the family business for over a decade.
Been a simple operator of the 2 Turning Machines for +5years.
For the first 2years on the Turning Machines I had 0 teachings.
For the next 2years our business hired a qualified Machinist (+35yrs skilled).
For the past year I've been getting off hand training from our Machinist.
For the past 12 weeks I've been our Machinists official apprentice.
My question is the following with the above machines stated already, my teacher is old school (even he admits it) and I am more new age tech 'savy' than he is himself and this isn't meant to "speak ill" against him but he finds the new age software that can/could be used somewhat "intimidating" having said that he is old school CNC so he is writing the code the hard way raw (he started on the paper rolls with hole punches).
I have the reverse opinion with state of the art software on using it where I can whenever I can not only because I like to but because I already know that you need to in order to stay "up to date", I watch him struggle and even though I know he is great at what he does the mere fact that he writes the code raw like this he visibly shakes (he's not young either) but it's a risk I know I could remove if I could use my young mind and techno savy abilities to find software to effectively run simulations of our specific machines and parameters in a virtual safe manner prior to any real machining being done (which even as an apprentice I would assume is the normality for big business etc.).
So my question is this...
Can anyone recommend to me software for my PC that I can learn and run simulations on but setup to mimic my machines exactly (axis limits etc etc) so that I as an apprentice can also practice safely and also hopefully apply it directly to our machines from the software to help remove this writing raw pray to gods stuff?
I just don't want to 'waste' my time on software that essentially teaches me "things" that do not pertain to my own machines and I have a strong gut feeling that there is some sort of "universally adjustable" cnc turning / milling etc. program out there where you can input your machines specifics and run virtual programs for both practice and reality in a safe manner and (more importantly for me I can do it at home/spare time) but also capable of being directly loaded from software to machine for live machining.
Any input from anyone greatly appreciated.
Cheers
First year apprentice Machinist here, I'm 12weeks in.
Working at my families small machine shop (2x CNC Turning & 1x CNC Milling 3 Axis).
The 2 CNC Turning machines are SEIKI HT 25R & SEIKI HT 25S (Milling Machine Unknown will attempt to find out tomorrow).
Summary of my history.
Working in the family business for over a decade.
Been a simple operator of the 2 Turning Machines for +5years.
For the first 2years on the Turning Machines I had 0 teachings.
For the next 2years our business hired a qualified Machinist (+35yrs skilled).
For the past year I've been getting off hand training from our Machinist.
For the past 12 weeks I've been our Machinists official apprentice.
My question is the following with the above machines stated already, my teacher is old school (even he admits it) and I am more new age tech 'savy' than he is himself and this isn't meant to "speak ill" against him but he finds the new age software that can/could be used somewhat "intimidating" having said that he is old school CNC so he is writing the code the hard way raw (he started on the paper rolls with hole punches).
I have the reverse opinion with state of the art software on using it where I can whenever I can not only because I like to but because I already know that you need to in order to stay "up to date", I watch him struggle and even though I know he is great at what he does the mere fact that he writes the code raw like this he visibly shakes (he's not young either) but it's a risk I know I could remove if I could use my young mind and techno savy abilities to find software to effectively run simulations of our specific machines and parameters in a virtual safe manner prior to any real machining being done (which even as an apprentice I would assume is the normality for big business etc.).
So my question is this...
Can anyone recommend to me software for my PC that I can learn and run simulations on but setup to mimic my machines exactly (axis limits etc etc) so that I as an apprentice can also practice safely and also hopefully apply it directly to our machines from the software to help remove this writing raw pray to gods stuff?
I just don't want to 'waste' my time on software that essentially teaches me "things" that do not pertain to my own machines and I have a strong gut feeling that there is some sort of "universally adjustable" cnc turning / milling etc. program out there where you can input your machines specifics and run virtual programs for both practice and reality in a safe manner and (more importantly for me I can do it at home/spare time) but also capable of being directly loaded from software to machine for live machining.
Any input from anyone greatly appreciated.
Cheers