Mc Vs G-zero

[Tinhman]

Make long story short, my boss bought another machine shop 2 years ago and now it is doing very well. In contrast, my shop lost a lot of customer so they have to give us something to do. We just have a meetting today and he said from now on, the other shop will do all the program for us and it will be in G-zero(they have Mc but they said they just dont like it). It means, i may have to say good bye with Mc and go back to school for G-zero (I did tried G-zero 8 years ago and it did not work out for me). I wonder, is "G-zero" getting better since then or i should print out my resume.

[gcode]

G Zero Mill Refernce Commands

I've never run it or even seen it before, but from looking a this, it looks awful primitive to me.

 

Lots of job opportunities

 

Power User Features

 

The header now includes a Date and Time stamp

Drilling command now supports a flat bottomed

countersink.

This is high end stuff folks

 

You mentioned that the GZero show was doing very well.. I wonder what kind of parts they are building??

[LT_mechead]

Is this what you are talking about?

http://www.g-zero.com/

 

It looks like G-Zero and MC are designed for rather different markets. How much business goes through your shop? I used to think CAM packages like Mastercam were expensive. Maybe for you and me but the time savings from advanced toolpaths alone (i.e. 3D surfacing) would cover the cost of the software in a year or less. A ball mill and surfacing toolpaths can eliminate entire setups and/or special tools. Everytime you get a print from CSE* which has crazy compound angles and fancy fillets, you'll know you've got the perfect tool for the job.

 

*Crack Smoking Engineer, AKA, CIE, Cost Ignorant Engineer

 

I just left my job with a seat of MC. I think I'm suffering withdrawl myself.

 

Lee

[crazy^millman]

Whooooooo here is just an example from their on-line site:

 

1 Define material

1 ZTOP.02

2 MAT’L xmin-.5 xmax66.5 ymin-14 ymax.5 thk.13 type0=ALUMALOY

Since we are going to program a flycut over the whole material, we need

to enter a ZTOP comment line right before the MAT’L command. In our

case, we are going to show 0.02” of material to be cut. The thickness

given in the MAT’L command (thk=0.13) is the actual thickness of the

part after flycut.

As you can see in the blueprint, the finished part is 9”x 6.5”. However,

we are going to cut multiple parts, so the material command needs to

reflect the dimension of the raw material.

This project includes a multiple part setup. Use Tool 1 as a flycutter over

all twelve parts. Program Tools 2 and 3 for one part only and let MULTIPLY

generate the subroutines and loops in your G-code for the remaining

parts.

2 Flycut over whole material

3 TOOL 1 dia8 flutes6 type5=CARBIDE INSERT MILL rad0 ***FLYCUT ALL

4 MILL zrapid.05 zcut0 passes1 zret.1 zf2.7 xyf11

5 POINT x-4.5 y-3.75

6 POINT x70.5 y-3.75 f10

7 POINT x70.5 y-11.7 f10

8 POINT x-4.5 y-11.7 f10

This tool cuts across the entire setup (6 parts across, 2 parts down). The

flycutter will NOT be included as a multiple part because this tool is

programmed before the MULTIPLY command.

The MILL command directs the flycutter to bring the material to a z-depth

of 0 (zero) before the cutting.

 

Here is the link: I would just have to shoot myself.

[SLJ]

Basic stuff, no comparison

[Zoober]

Looks like the old compact II system from like a gazillion years (in CNC years ) ago

[beej]

Wow! does it punch it's own tapes or do you need a hammer and punch?