My scary story (and rant) starts right when I came in (3rd shift) at 11p to a "...program that won't work..." Mind you it is a proven program, run for 3+ years, 6-10 times per day, 6 days a week!
Look at program, yup all screwed up, hole positions off 428mm!! I had planned on programming a new part tonight, so I went to grab the backup program and WT*! its the same screwup! Funny how before I opened the back up program the save details showed it was opened on 2nd shift today...
So now I've got to figure this out... Finally after 5 hours of looking through the program (8,000 lines of codes) I figured out that someone "accidentally" changed the workplane in once section from X plus to Y plus, and before and after an alignment the same thing magically happened (X plus to Y minus). Funny thing is that they were just the opposite on the back up program (X+ to Y- and X+ to Y+) like someone realized what they did, and were trying to "fix" it on the back up program to test it.
I think today is the only day of the year I can put a hangman's noose over the computer and probably not get in trouble!
Have a great day getting candy with your kids (or stealing it from the kids in the neighborhood!)
4/1/96
