Helical Boring G-Code Generator

[Mk.32]

I am an student on Team 3647; at our sponsor machine shop I am allowed to run CNC Mill, Bridgeports, Lathe, CNC laser, anything else in the shop myself. However this is a community shop where you pay a membership fee and then have access the tools, provided you can demonstrate at least basic knowledge on the more complex machine tools.

However I am the only student on the team that is allowed to use the CNC hardware, having students run CNC machines can be a tricky subject as there is a lot that can go wrong and you have to very careful and go though every step in the process correctly.

[zcoops97]

At GRR, we recently realized our ~30 year old bridgeport with prototrak plus had cnc capabilities, and running the cnc is nothing new. We can generate programs on the DRO manually, and it is operated the same way as the g-codes we input into the DRO. You press the button and it makes it go. Learning how to operate the dials and cranks was harder than learning to generate programs on our bridgeport