Just got the software update for the NGC and have ran into a lot of interesting issues with this thing, and wondered what everyone's impression was with the programming / Haas integration. I think it would be endlessly easier with the teach pendant but it's not so bad now.

Well, except every once in a while I have to re-do a path for intermittent joint lock issues, or one robot seems to have an issue with the way it's calibrated so that each inch you move on the grid is only .98, If you don't hit APL Mode ON / OFF a few times sometimes it will try to load nothing, we've had auto doors mysteriously failing to open and throwing error even though they are clean and the sensors are good (fixed by Haas), we've needed to tweak our door timing several times, had to tweak the modbus setting on the robot at the PLC, got a software update that trashed all the fixes we'd already done so had to do them over. Now it's random stopping on custom cycles. Does anyone have robots that run well?

Also, I'd like to shake my fist at the solid 1-2 second delay when you use multiple M300s back to back. I'm at a company that is currently transitioning to very high production jobs, our main "real" machinist is leaving and we are damn near doubling production. So I've started building high-density fixtures that they've never done before. I'm trying new tooling to bump up throughput. I'm their sole 5 axis guy, robot programmer, and do 98% of the mill programming. I run the EDM. I'm taking classes for Engineering on the side and do any of the solid modeling they need. I fix machines. I make $27 an hour, which seems to be about the median pay around here ( Central Florida ). I vowed to never go back to computer programming, because I hated the soul sucking-ness of where I was at, but those salaries are looking hot right now and remote. I truly love machining, but it's not paying the bills super great in my current life situation.