/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>fixing machine at work
>have to pull off small cover
>philips heads
>owner is standing next to me
>put in my Philips driver
>fuck that's not philips it's JIS
>tell owner I need a JIS driver and a philips will just strip it (they were in tight)
>he takes my philips driver and tries to force them
>half strips them like I said it would
>mfw

>>1442626
This is actually correct, I flip my shit over bad surface finish even when there's no finish requirements and I constantly argue tolerances with management.
>get parts from someone else for a later operation
>dimension is +.009" out of the +-.01 tolerance
>anon why are you bringing this up, it's in tolerance, it's fine!
>it being +.009" means the +-.005" on my operation is now +-.0005"

>>1423208
>There's still a base program that you enter code into even if it's from scratch as you go along.
No there's not. If the machine takes raw G-code, there's absolutely no "base" program outside of either a program number for it to use as a file name and or a specific symbol that tells the controller where the start and end of a file is.

%
o0000;
everything else;
%


G291;
Everything else;


That's what a "base" program looks like. There are macros like G81 for a basic drill cycle but you still have to type that all in yourself, you don't just start with a page that gives you boxes to put numbers into.

For example

%
o0001
g90 g00 g18 g40 g80
T1 M6
G00 G90 G54 X0. Y0. S2500 M3
G43 H1 Z1.
Z.1
G81 Z-.5 F5. R.1
G80
G00 Z5.
G28 Y0.
M30
%

That will drill a hole half inch to point at part zero. You have to type all of that out unless you're using a CAM software like MasterCAM. You can copy paste that and just change the numbers but that only works for simple shit like drill cycles, you can't do a complex pocket like that effectively because you're still just rewriting the whole program.

>You don't type code into notepad and then hit "export to mill".
You literally do, G-code is handled completely in plaintext. Some controllers like Siemens demand it have a specific extension (.mpf) but it's still just a fucking plain text notepad file. Every other machine I've worked on will gladly take a .txt as long as it starts and ends with a % and has a program number. If that's not how their machines work, then they're conversational and that's an entirely different beast and your knowledge of C+/Java/whatever is worth literally nothing because every company has a different way they handle inputs and how to define geometry in the controller. You admit to knowing nothing about this, why are you arguing it with someone who does it for a living?

>>67935
flour can cause a massive fire if you were to toss it and there was any sort of spark

stop talking shit if you don't know what you're saying