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Re: Self-Service Cloud Machine Shop
I would never in 10 million years allow some random person on the internet send me CAM to run on my machine.
Do you bill them when they crash your machine?
Do you go through and change their speeds and feeds to match your tooling?
What happens when they CAM something with a tool you don't have? Do you redo it to match what you do have? If I ask for a 20"x20" plate faced with a 1/8" end mill do you kindly tell me I'm an idiot and switch to a face mill? or do you make the part as CAM'ed and spend 3 hours facing the top?
Why is this a draw for potential customers? Is it cheaper for me to submit a part to you that I've CAM'ed than to have you do the whole thing? as both an end user and someone with CNC machining skills I don't really care how you CAM the part as long as I get something back that matches the print. Unless it's cheaper I don't understand why you'd offer this feature to customers, particularly given the time involved for you to check/edit the user submitted CAM and the potential for some random person on the internet to crash your machine.
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Last edited by Cory : 31-12-2016 at 15:07.
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