Call me old fashioned, but I can't imagine that a programmer would not prove out,
and improve a program.
A computer programmer is making a program.. Do you think they never actually try
and run the program? This really isn't any different.
Completely fine to have the setup guy dial in the fixture, and set the tools,
but that f'n programmer better be standing there. He's the one that *KNOWS*
what is supposed to happen.
If its something stupid and simple, F* it. Send it and hit GO. I do it all
the time. Complicated, my ass is right there at the machine.
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I'm also not a fan of saving "The Program".. Save the Cad/Cam, and repost it.
If something that you might do every couple of years, or its been a long time
since you last did it. You want to double check it, and looking at the CAM is
a lot easier than futzing around with a text file. Maybe you have new endmills,
or you are using a carbide drill now, or whatever...
I have very very few actual programs saved. And the ones I do have saved are
really not normal, and required a lot of hand coding, but I still go back to the
CAM and check it all out.
I'm with Hounddog.. EVERYTHING goes into the machine as 01000. I have a few
programs with their own #'s, but its very few. One part I do a lot is 1500,
I have a program that hoses down the whole table, I think that is 4321. Subs
are 1001, 1002, 1003.
I also save 99.5% of my programs as "Delete Me". Which I have never actually deleted,
I just keep writing it over and over and over..