Re: Survey: Do You "Dry Run" Your Programs?

Okay, so I'm late and catching up, but BottleBob <bottlbob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:43:47 GMT in alt.machines.cnc :
To All:

How often (and in what circumstances), do you "dry run" your programs?

[x] Always

[ ] Sometimes

[ ] Virtually Never


[ ] Primarily Manually Program

[ ] Primarily CAD/CAM Program

Comments.

It has been years since I had the opportunity to dry run (or wet run)
any of my programs.
But I dry run the programs at work for the simple fact that it is part
of the setup. When I started I ran them at slow speed, mostly to see what
the program was going to do (I can read Gcode, but not fluently, I still
need a dictionary.), now I jut watch to make sure "no surprises." Or to
find out "which clamp does the program think is #4?" The one marked with a
4 or the one at that end of the bed?
It is that first part which is the ticklish one... "Why is this not
cleaning up in the corner?" [When the shop Supervisor says "lets change Z"
you change z. Across the board.]
--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."
.

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