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Re:Some things I realized about AI while contemplating slide... by bsder on Friday September 09, 2022 @08:57PM (#32786635)
> It would likely be similarly ridiculous to produce 5 widgets with a CNC.

It is almost always faster to use CNC in all cases unless what you are machining is incredibly simple.

Manual machining is likely most used in "unit of one" where the thing is big as large CNC machines are ferociously expensive.

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Re:Some things I realized about AI while contemplating slide... by fourjawchuck on Saturday September 10, 2022 @01:33PM (#32792711)
I am a manual machinist. Our shop is more or less that, a job shop that does one-offs or short run work on items that are larger than most cnc machines. However some of the machines have fanuc controls and can thus run programs as well.
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