by Bob Warfield | Aug 9, 2022 | Blog, CADCAM, GCode, Software, Tools and Techniques
What is an NC Viewer? An NC Viewer is a software tool that helps you work with your cnc machine’s nc files. NC files, also called g-code files, are the files that tell your cnc machine how to make parts, so this is pretty important. NC Viewers go by many names...
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by Bob Warfield | Dec 7, 2021 | Blog, CNC Manufacturing & Job Shops, Feeds and Speeds, GCode, Software, Tools and Techniques
Did you make some New Year’s Resolutions this year? You really should. 2022 is going to be a growth year for CNC. Right here at the beginning is your chance to take on some new challenges and learn some new things that will help ensure you grow too this year....
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by Bob Warfield | Jul 20, 2021 | Blog, CNC Basics, GCode, Tools and Techniques
Beginner’s Guide to CNC Program Proofing Deliverable: CNC Program is Proven and we’re ready to machine the Part Proofing the program is the last step before we actually make real cuts. The goal of proofing is to verify the program is correct and the CNC...
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by Bob Warfield | Jul 20, 2021 | Blog, CNC Basics, GCode, Software, Tools and Techniques
Beginner’s Guide to Using Conversational CNC to Program CNC Parts Deliverable: A G-Code Part Program created using Conversational CNC. Conversational CNC is programming g-code by asking questions of the programmer in order to create operations that are similar...
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by Bob Warfield | Jul 12, 2021 | Blog, GCode
Accessing Modal Data in G-Code CNCCookbook’s G-Code Tutorial Introduction to Modal Data If there is one thing I hope you’ve learned by now about g-code, it is that g-codes and CNC controllars are very modal. They remember certain states they’re in...
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by Bob Warfield | Jul 10, 2021 | Blog, GCode, Software
Macro Example: G-Code Engraving Digits CNCCookbook’s G-Code Tutorial A Set of Macros for Engraving Digits In this example, we’ll show how to create a set of macros for engraving digits. To start out, I wanted to create a “stick font” for the...
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