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Showing 1 – 10 of 299 resultsMisapplication of these important CNC features will result in wasted time, wasted or duplicated effort and/or wasted material.
Certain “hybrid” machines combine some form of additive manufacturing with CNC subtractive manufacturing. Columnist Mike Lynch, President of CNC Concepts Inc., explores three types of these machines here.
FANUC’s version of parametric programming, Custom Macro, enables you to create your own canned cycles tailored to whatever the application requires.
These oddities in the way a CNC naturally behaves can help explain some rather unusual situations that may occur during machining.
You cannot begin to take advantage of an available feature if you do not know it exists. Conversely, you will not know how to avoid CNC features that may be detrimental to your process.
Safety commands help safeguard CNC applications from common programming or operation errors.
The act of qualifying CNC programs is largely related to eliminating variations, which can be a daunting task when you consider how many things can change from one time a job is run to the next.
The primary goal of a setup reduction program must be to keep setup people working at the machine during the entire setup process.
Keeping operators from having to manually make sizing adjustments will free them up to do other things for as long as each finishing tool will last, regardless of how many sizing adjustments it requires.
CNC programmers gain flexibility when using custom macros to define G and M codes themselves.
