NC Programming

RS274C

I was going to reccomend the EMC site, but this one is better, and just for your machine.

Start simple. You can make damn near every part with four Gcodes: G0 G1 G2 G3 and five Mcodes M3 M4 M5 M7 M9. Learn these completely first.

From there, I used a felt tip maker as my fist tool and learned to draw on paper. Nobody will get pissed when you bust this tool learning.

There's several folks here that will love to answer your queries.

Karl

Thanks! Rich

Thanks! Rich

No prob--suggest ask over at if you have other questions

I'm curious, I gave up on AMC quite a while back. Not only was it 99% OT BS but the rest was guys insulting each other. Have things changed? I do remember you helping me and others out but most of the group had no use for wannabe CNC hobbyists.

Karl

The newsgroup is dead, killed by Cliff and Gunner.

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Can you re-phrase that as a question please?

Someone will have the answer.

(Amongst the Noise from Cliff, and previously Gunner, and Johnnie Bonkers )

This gentleman...

======== One of the best things to do is sign up for a non-credit CNC class at your local community college or vo-tech. You will have someone to answer your questions, and get to practice on their machine(s).

To start try

While more of a reference book than a self paced tutorial, the Smid book is a good investment, and the book does include exercises/solutions on the included CD.

You may find the following sites of help/interest

-- Unka George (George McDuffee) .............................. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author. The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).

Hi, it's me; I've just started lurking, as per advice, and have been ignoring the same idiots I've been ignoring on r.c.m; so far I concur with what you've said, (I have to ignore or filter the same nincompoops), but I am starting to get a little worried about the pros disdaining hobbyists.

And this isn't for hobby machining; I'm hoping to eventually learn to do revenue-producing work, so there may be a small inner party of pros who want to shun interlopers, much like "medical transcription" or "document coding" and the like.

BTW, If you want to get some attitude from the pros, try the HVAC group! (I don't remember which hierarchy it's on, but why bother? ;-) )

Thanks! Rich

I once tried out for "Win Ben Stein's Money," and during the briefing, they said, "We give our answers in the form of an answer." ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Thanks, but I have no money to spend on private tutoring, which is why I was looking for online freebies. Karl's suggestion of compumachine.com seems promising. :-)

Thanks! Rich

A search of the archives ....

Yonnie (bunko) bonkers is off for now.

Clearly he still has no clues about the basics of ANY 3D system of any sort. The untrained newbie was confused about the WCS & the view. That is all.

It's now down to only 98%,

John