Yes. And yes. I’m just in such a bad mental state right now that things are really hard to judge.

In the modern era, when you are trying to machine a part the customer will typically send you a full 3d model of the part. You then plop it into MasterCAM or SolidWorks. From there, you manually select surfaces in order to generate a toolpath. It gets more complicated from there. What an LLM could do is potentially cut out that whole manual toolpath creation entirely. Straight from model to finished part in a few minutes.

No, you can’t feasibly do these things because if the tool is cutting it’s making a finish no matter what axis it is cutting in. If they have to measure it and judge it by it being a finished part, it will be rejected.

The thing is though, when I say they need physical products as a result, they will be measuring them with a CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) that not only takes very accurate measurements, but also surface finish. I can’t do both incorrectly - ever. Also, see my update: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/61854279

I have to say that I am rightly confused as to what Fedecan (while it seems like a cool project at first glance) has to do with any of this. And like I said in the previous post - poisoning the data doesn’t pass muster when they need measurable results from actual dimensions to surface finish. You can get away with one of them. Both isn’t going to happen when they use a CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) that measures both.

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I mean, mods might nuke it for some reason, but here you go; https://fosswars.thecomicseries.com/ - it’s not funny. It’s an experiment based on gradually better art (oh fuck that’s been hard) based on https://analognowhere.com/ based on @pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 's work with unix surrealism.

The support is in the about page.

ETA: Different link

Thank you for an insight from someone that actually seems to understand what’s going on. My stomach twisted and turned as I signed a contract for General Dynamics because I had to eat. They won’t let you poison it because they need a measurable good part or assembly at the end of it. Small changes can easily affect small tolerances. “Oh just do it sloppily!” absolutely does not hold up to scrutiny when they have CMMs measuring what you’ve done vs. what they see. If I have to hold a good tolerance of 0.002" they will measure and with that along with finishes etc. they will know it is not up to snuff.

Iwish I could bring myself to this, but I actually rely give a fuck and have some pride in what I do. I wish I wasn’t principled, but I spent years as an apprentice to get to where I am at and I’ll be damned if I put my name on shoddy work.

I have, and that is part of why I am mentally collapsing over this.

This is hard to describe, but I will try on this broken phone. I can’t turn on the machine for less than $75 per hour. This is due to the way things get quoted like my time, materials etc. Buy also since it is purely bid and contract based, good luck getting to pay yourself more than $20 an hour overall. The steady contracts simply will not pay you more. This also by the hour, fixed - not a quote per job and that is a massive difference.

I don’t disagree at all, but things start to feel weird when you potentially send 600,000 people to near revolution to enrich yourself.

It is on purpose. It is an experiment on art getting steadily more complicated as well as drawing on lore from https://analognowhere.com/ via @pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org and the lore he has built

Earning less is the problem here. I’ve had large contracts making literal nuclear power plant parts for GE for $75/hr - that’s just above machine/power cost. This would actually set me up to be a potential millionaire. I hate it.

I don’t think so, because they want a viable physical product which can be measured accurately.

My problem with that is that if I do this correctly, it could mean hundreds of thousands of jobs from people that have potentially spent decades making a trade. It’s harder than just me wanting money.

I agree in principle, but, wow I have to admit it’s hard. I hate this :(

There are generic CNC emulators. They’ve been around for a long time (like 15 years, as you said). The difference is that that they will do the grunt work, but a human needs to make the tool paths actually viable. The difference is that with actual professional tools like MasterCAM, it has been cutting out that intern for just as long but a cost of thousands of dollars per seat. What this has the potential to do, if I do it correctly, is even push out those incredibly expensive MasterCAM seats. I could cost hundreds of thousands of jobs if I do this correctly.

Sure, by an ethical/moral standpoint that works. From the legal standpoint, however, if I did that I’d be sued to the point where I have no option but to live out my life in prison. This kind of thing sounds great on paper. In practice? I’m not fucking going back.

Ok, thanks for that - but that’s an hour-long video. I’m busy trying to keep my laptop from melting. Is there a tl;dw?