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Re:CNC milling with open source software by onmai-xyz on Friday January 18, 2019 @02:14PM (#18942012)
>machinist still needs to load everything correctly. It's very easy to make a mistake.

Tool configuration is kinda-sorta solved with ISO 13399, this is being supported in more and more CAM systems and tool vendors, but as you say it is very easy to make a mistake.

Assuming the mistakes are happening when the tool data is reduced from the comprehensive format that ISO 13399 supports to the barebones and simple TxDxHx format that is loaded on CNC machine. Would be nice if machine tools supported a comprehensive format directly.

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Re:CNC milling with open source software by nickpinkston on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:24PM (#18943679)
Not to mention workholding, etc. that might be off.
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Re:CNC milling with open source software by onmai-xyz on Friday January 18, 2019 @08:22PM (#18944647)
Tooling data in a G-Code data structure bootstrapped with G65 and M98 would support fixture models.

Certainly a chicken and egg problem though, my ideal future would have CAD files generated from single source of truth CNC files:)

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