Re: The First No Bull**** Blog Devoted To Telling The Truth About Both CAD And CAM

On Mon, 12 May 2008 13:42:07 -0700 (PDT), jmeyette@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Actually Cliff, I'm an AE for a Machine Tool Dealer in SoCal and
>believe it or not, Jon was actually one of my customers for about a
>month or so (perhaps longer - not sure when he actually started where
>he was at). 

   Perhaps about a week or so before?

>Didn't end up staying too long after we had spoken a few
>times on the phone for whatever reason. 

  Place had a "1/2 million dollar Matsuura horizontal with 12 pallets has
a
conveyor that dumps chips into a small dumpster."?
  Except he had problems counting the pallets? And it almost never
made any parts because of all the time needed to stand at the control &
MDI edit all the G-code?

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On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:48:44 -0700, jon_banquer 


<jon_banq...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote: 
>"So what your saying is you can't program using MasterCAM or configure 
>its post processor to output good G-Code for you 100% of the time?" 

>Some of our posts do need some work. Fixing them is not our shops / 
>the owners / my  highest priority right now. 
]

  The Zen of the RED button: 
[ 
When my mind is deep in the code and I'm standing at the machine 
editing or creating a program I can see the tool in my mind as cuts 
the part. I'm like in another world. 
] - jon banquer 

[ 
In better shops people know when not to bother you.  When 
this happens on a frequent basis it's a good sign that 
perhaps one should move on. 
] - jon banquer 

  "One word sums it up.....HANDWHEEL" 

>Had some good intelligent
>questions for a change. I was able to provide some useful information
>to him. He uncovered a bug in Fanuc's Manual Guide-i that I was
>unaware of (but that the builder in question was aware of) 

  Was he trying to edit a program as one was running?
  Perhaps the same program that was running?

>Regardless
>of my personal feelings towards him and his opinions, I treated him
>like I treat every other customer; with class, respect, dignity and
>"go the extra mile".

  Not to be unexpected.
-- 
Cliff