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Originally Posted by louie_the_fly
When I managed a couple of toolrooms over a 12 year period (a few years back now) I wouldn't use CNC code supplied by the customer. The reason being that even though you verify his program, when his code crashes your machine  , and believe me, this happens, the customer won't want to pay for a new spindle assembly for your $500K machining centre.
Best to just provide the 3D model to the machine shop in my opinion. Even in this case, depending on the customer, we would often reproduce the 3d model from their 2D drawings. Piece of mind. |
Yes, I would expect that
, but I assumed he may have bought a small hobby CNC machine...
Al.