Hot take: old school manual offsets are better than CAM software for small jobs

Last week I spent 6 hours fighting a CAM simulation that crashed three times on a simple bracket, but my coworker did the same part in 45 minutes with a calculator and a G-code book from 1995, and now I'm wondering if I should go back to doing it by hand for runs under 50 parts, has anyone else switched back from CAM after a bad day?

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faithj1023d ago

Those crashes eat time, manual is still faster for simple stuff.

derekgibson22d ago

I feel like 'those crashes eat time' makes it sound like you're resetting Windows 95 every time you make a typo. Most modern plugins autosave and recover so fast you barely notice unless you're working on a literal potato laptop. Plus, for 'simple stuff' like a quick vocal comp or punch-in, punching is literally one button and you're done. Manual editing is nice for precision but let's not pretend the computer is gonna explode over a two second glitch.