Russ Wizinsky wrote:
I went to an interview where the shop manager wanted somebody to run his
Mazaks. That's all the shop had in the place and he had a few. The were
fairly new. I've run Mazaks for probably 4-5 years but I've been doing it
all in G&M code, and if I got stuck I'd use Surfcam. He said he'd prefer
someone who knew Maztrol. I told him it probably wouldn't be a huge deal to
figure out I've used lots of different machines with different controls and
another one had conversational, but he was quite insistant. The stuff they
were doing didn't look like rocket science or anything pretty much, keyways,
a few tapped holes, couple bores. Nothing with compound angles or funky
stuff. Am I thinking wrong about this?
No, the shop owner is thinking wrong, but trying to convince him will
be like talking to a wall. They are not doing "rocket science" because
conversational programming (I'm assuming that is what Maztrol is) is
usually so limited that anything really complex can't be done with it.
Our shop at work is the same way. Since the only guy who knew the
CAD-CAM system died, they call up a consultant at bridgeport to write
all the tough lines of G-code for them that they can't get the
conversational mode to do.

Jon