Guides
Brother Speedio Conversational to G-Code: Both Layers Mapped
Brother Speedio controls offer guided programming alongside standard G-code, and production reality uses both layers. What transfers, what stays native.
Lawrence Arya··4 min
Guides
Can AI Write a Safe Fanuc Macro Program? Not Unsupervised
Macro B is where AI G-code generation is least safe: niche corpus, per-control system variables, and code whose whole job is safety checks. The boundaries.
Lawrence Arya··4 min
Guides
Can I Learn CNC Programming Without Going to School?
Yes, the knowledge half is fully self-teachable with free tools; school's real value is structure, machine access, and credentials, which have substitutes.
Lawrence Arya··4 min
Guides
Can You Put Two M-Codes on the Same Line of G-Code?
The one-M-per-block rule is the historical default; some controls allow more under conditions. Why the restriction exists, and the rule that is always safe.
Lawrence Arya··4 min
Guides
ChatGPT CNC Lathe G71 Canned Cycle Errors, Explained
G71 is where ChatGPT G-code fails hardest: two incompatible formats in the training data, strict contour rules, and U/W double meanings. The error map.
Lawrence Arya··5 min
Practice
CNC Basics Without the Toxic Shop Culture: A Clean Path In
The hazing, gatekeeping, and earn-your-answers culture some shops run is optional, and so is enduring it: the self-directed path covers the basics cleanly.
Lawrence Arya··4 min
Code reference
CNC G-Code Wallpaper for Your Phone: Reference, Not Memory
A G-code lock-screen wallpaper is a fine pocket reference and a poor teacher: what belongs on it, how to make one that is actually readable, and the limit.
Lawrence Arya··4 min
Guides
CNC Machine Stuck on M30, Won't Rewind: The Five Causes
M30 means end and rewind, so a machine stuck there has a file-format or mode problem: missing EOB, missing percent marker, DNC streaming, or a setting.
Lawrence Arya··4 min
Practice
CNC Program Skipped a Tool Change: Why, and Where to Look
A skipped tool change has five usual doors: block delete active, a T without M06, staging conventions misread, a restart that jumped it, or magazine logic.
Lawrence Arya··4 min
Guides
CNC Programming for Total Dummies: A No-Shame Starter Path
Nobody is too dumb for CNC programming: the everyday core is about 25 codes and grade-school math. The five-rung starter path that actually works from zero.
Lawrence Arya··5 min
Guides
Learn CNC Programming in South Africa: The SETA Route
In South Africa the funded route into CNC runs through merSETA learnerships, apprenticeships, and TVET colleges, ending in a trade test. Here is the map.
Lawrence Arya··5 min
Guides
CNC Programming Without the Confusing Math: What You Need
Day-to-day CNC programming runs on arithmetic, not calculus: offsets, two formulas, and direction sense. Which math you can dodge and which to keep.
Lawrence Arya··5 min