Bill Payter wrote: > On the other hand, I could take you to a company where the programmer only > ever draws profiles in SmartCAM on layer 1 at Z 0 and does everything else > by editing at > the machine! And that's after I've twice been hired by his employer to train > him to do things 'properly' and spent hours writing four code-generators for > him. It takes all sorts.
Bill, I worked for a boss, who was a self proclaimed Pattern Engineer (no formal training or college), who wanted to use Smartcam. I moved the PC into his office and after lunch I asked him how it was going. He replied, "I clicked that Create button and nothing happened, what is wrong with it?" He finally decided that this programming stuff is just a bunch of computer tricks and I just wouldn't tell him what they were. He got run off later. Sadly, I worked for this clown for 5 years. After 18 years I left there and the guy that this Pattern Engineer guy had hand picked for a replacement, decided that he could buy patterns from a major supplier cheaper that we could have made them in the shop (very wrong) but it worked for him. To this day his boss has never found out that this new Dept. Manager guy barely had a high school education and can't even operate a cnc. I left there and went in business for myself. Michael -- Michael Gailey Visit our CAD/CAM/CNC Programming and 3D modeling website http://www.microsystemsgeorgia.com/toc.htm mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
