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How long does it take you to program?

Lukas Frey

Let’s say someone gives you a metal part with 150 dimensions. How long would it take you to study the print, figure out fixturing, create a setup sheet, and program it? You’ve never seen this part before and it’s somewhat complex. Assume the print makes complete sense to you after studying the print—so you don’t need to ask the designer any questions.

Also, would the program run perfectly the first time? If not, how long would “proving out” the program (making adjustments) take you?

I ask these questions because I get them a lot being the only programmer at a significantly large company with 3 machines. I’m curious what other people’s experiences are, and I’m open to any tips. I will state my answers to these questions in one week. Hopefully I get a lot of responses.

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    There's a lot of good detailed responses here, and I have a follow-up question.

    Is there any tips from the people who have responded to improve programming speed that could help just about everyone? Even if it's a small thing.

  • 0 in reply to WilliamL

    The only thing I've found is that you can create sets and constructed features using auto-feature hitpoints. So like if I wanted to create a plane out of two planes I could do pln1.hit[1..pln1.numhits],pln2.hit[1..pln2.numhits] That would create a plane out of all the hitpoints of pln1 and pln2. Or, if I wanted to dimension the profile of both planes, then I could create a constructed feature set in the same manner. Instead of creating constructed feature sets of a million auto points and having to select them all individually.

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  • 0 in reply to WilliamL

    The only thing I've found is that you can create sets and constructed features using auto-feature hitpoints. So like if I wanted to create a plane out of two planes I could do pln1.hit[1..pln1.numhits],pln2.hit[1..pln2.numhits] That would create a plane out of all the hitpoints of pln1 and pln2. Or, if I wanted to dimension the profile of both planes, then I could create a constructed feature set in the same manner. Instead of creating constructed feature sets of a million auto points and having to select them all individually.

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