A blend of automatic and magic for features that just work, such as a tool changer, auto tool length measure or CAM function, until the day they don't. It can be admiring or skeptical, and it often precedes a story about the time the automagic feature did something nobody expected.
Heard on the job
Probe sets the work offset automagically, as long as somebody remembered to calibrate the stylus.
Related terms
Touch off
To set a tool's position by bringing it to a known surface and recording that point in the control.
Work offset
The stored distance from machine zero to the part zero, so a CNC program runs from the right place.
Angry pixies
Tool-teardown slang for electricity, the invisible little creatures that bite when you get careless.