From Newsgroup: rec.crafts.metalworking
On 8/9/2026 4:03 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"Bob La Londe"-a wrote in message news:115abam$3ujlc$1@dont-email.me...
Just don't use Gemini AI.-a It won't look anything like the
original part if you do, and it will deliver the part to Cambodia. --------------------------------
Google AI rarely understands what I enter. I just searched for Noric
iron and it insists that I meant Nordic.
Noricum was Celtic Austria where the Romans obtained iron containing manganese to make superior swords.
I'm not the only well educated person around. I was at a fair today discussing 3D printing filament when the band began a song that both of
us identified as Fantine's from Les Miserables.
I started playing with Grok, because its the AI that integrates to some
extent with Tesla (my wife just ordered a Model 3 AWD), and I wanted to
know it was as retarded as Gemini AI (which is way to integrated with
Android Auto and has fucked it all to hell). Grok is not terrible. It
has a political bias, but it backs up its findings with reasoned
arguments. Its not just wrong, like Gemini AI often is.
That being said, I had reason to post this today on the CamBam forumss
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I never really understood how Fast Plunge Height in CamBam worked. It
didn't work how I thought it should so I just left it at -1 and it
didn't do anything really. Today I set it for .02 (I typically set my
stock surface at .01 for decking) and it is amazing. I think it may
save nearly as many hours on some jobs as my low default .05 clearance
height did.
It's not perfect, but its a lot better than plunging at the plunge rate
from clearance height when machining a feature in the bottom of a pocket.
I needed to do a 3D detail operation in the bottom of a 3D pocket. The
top of the feature is at about -0.3. Now its rapiding down to -0.28 and
only slowing to plunge rate for the last .02 inches.
I know most of you guys have probably had this dialed, but it was not intuitive to me, and I always had something more important to figure out.
I knew others had been using it so I asked Gemini AI for a better
description of how the fast plunge height works, and in its mostly
useless as tits on a stump fashion, it just regurgitate the same
information as in the CamBam manual. That still doesn't make sense to
me, so I called it a stupid fucking AI and reminded it I said "better description," not just vomit up the manual I already read. I was
stunned when it came back with a description of how to achieve usable
results. It's the most brain damaged of all the AIs, okay Microsoft's
CoPilot AI may be tied for retardation level, but it actually gave a
useful description.
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Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff
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