DRO: DRO is short for “Digital Read Out”.

Power Feeds: The machine can move under motorized control.

Think of that fancy CNC machine as nothing more than a manual machine that has DRO’s (digital read outs) and Power Feeds on all of the axes. The first trick is to forget about G-Code, CAD, and CAM. You can do anything on your CNC that the manual machinist can and often faster once you know how… DRO’s and Power Feeds Good CNC machinists can do most anything a manual machinist can do and then some. They have visions of spending hours making CAD drawings of even the simplest parts and then feeding those CAD drawings through a CAM program to finally produce G-Code, at which point they are finally ready to make some chips. Many manual machinists are under the impression that CNC is only good for manufacturing multiple identical parts, and that one offs are a lot faster to do on manual machines.

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