On 6/18/2010 at 7:04 AM, Tony35 said:

 

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Personally I could care less about the operator's perspective.

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I ll bet the operators feel the same  about the programmers    team efforts work better and cost less

I started out hand coding g codes on a niigata hmc in the 80's. Did prove outs,set ups and  ran  G&l hbm's for 26 years and dealt with a lot of screwed up crap from various  cam systems over the years . operators that are good save millions of dollars of damage over the years,button pushers dont. Im going to be doing mastercam on a large quill spindle hmc. For me the top front method  makes a lot more sense than top top . if i rotate a part, i want it rotating  on the rotation axis  not spinning on z like a vertical . just my 2 cents  after 40 years from both sides of the equation