Heard a guy say G-code is dying, another guy said it's forever...

I was at a shop in Phoenix last week and heard two old timers almost get into it over whether G-code is on its way out or if it'll be around forever. One said new conversational software makes it pointless, the other argued nobody is replacing G-code on a million-dollar 5-axis any time soon. Who do you think is right, are we better off learning the new software or sticking with manual programming?

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annaw7327d ago

Seems like people get real worked up over nothing.

ivanross27d ago

Annaw73 is right people do get way too heated about this stuff. Thing is the new software is great for quick jobs but when you gotta do something really precise or weird on an older machine you better know G-code or you're stuck. Both sides act like its one or the other but most shops end up needing a mix of both worlds.

joel_hall1726d ago

Man tell me about it, I was in a shop last month watching a guy spend three hours trying to get a conversational post to spit out a simple helix bore on an old Hass. Ended up just hand writing the G02 and G03 blocks in like ten minutes. Meanwhile another guy on a newer Matsuura swears by the conversation software for most of his work. In my experience its not one or the other the real trick is knowing both. The minute you run into a weird chamfer or a tool comp issue on a machine from 2005 you better have that G-code muscle memory or youre gonna be standing around waiting on a guy like me to bail you out.