Introducing CNCCookbook’s Online G-Code Learning Course

Jun 21, 2011 // by Bob Warfield // Blog, Techniques // No Comments

G-Code

Every machinist should know a little G-Code…

We’re introducing a brand new free content feature–an Online G-Code Learning Course. So far we have just the syllabus page and first chapter. We should blow through the basics pretty quickly and then there will be regular installments from Intermediate through to Advanced. We’ll be including articles such as G-Code for manual machinists, G-Code and Post Processors, and Poor Man’s CAM from canned cycles.

Our goal is to help out all skill levels to increase their knowledge of g-code programming. The first chapter goes into detail on some of the advantages of knowing g-code well because you can:

- Avoid having to run back to your CAM program when simple changes to the g-code would do the job.

- Learn how to improve the g-code the CAM program puts out for better results.

- Understand better how to tweak your CAM software’s post processor so it produces better code from the start.

- Make it faster and easier to fix the g-code when you run into a problem due to a bug in the CAM or post processor.

- Create quick and dirty g-code programs that allow you to get on with machining faster without having to sit down with your CAD/CAM.

- Develop a greater facility for working at the console of the machine directly.

Apparently many of you already understand the value of this based on our recent G-Code Skills Survey. For preliminary survey responses (we’ve already gotten several hundred), click through to the course. I’ll post the final responses there too at the end of the week.

I sent copies of the rough draft course syllabus to a number of machinists I respect and incorporated their feedback, so I think we have a pretty good curriculum. The course will be designed so you can use our G-Wizard G-Code Editor as an interactive learning tool. More on that as it unfolds, but I have some ideas that I think people will find fun and entertaining. We’ll also be doing a video series that illustrates the concepts using GWE.

Lots more to come!