Macros substantially accelerate CNC programming

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The company produces components for stamping presses in a large machine shop that includes many gantry and horizontal milling machines. Dozens of new CNC programs must be created each month in order to produce machines to meet special customer requirements. In the past, this was a complicated and challenging task.

A number of years back, Prensas Schuler purchased new CNC programming software that used macros to reduce the amount of time required to create new programs. The company wrote macros for each of the main types of parts used in its presses. Each macro prompted the CNC programmer to define whether or not the part should include various special features and automatically excluded conflicting choices. These macros substantially reduced the amount of time required to program new parts and also reduced the number of programming errors.

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However, Prensas Schuler found that support was available only by e-mail and the technicians were often unable to provide solutions to the company’s problems. Another issue was that the software used its own proprietary macro language, which meant programmers had to be trained from scratch.

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