Advancedd drillin

[GARRJESS]

When using Advanced drilling is there any way to back the drill off the bottom of the hole say by .100 before it retracts out of the hole. I'm using a 15xd drill that is following a pilot hole and I have the advanced drill feature working in a blind hole. But I want to back it off the bottom of the hole them reduce spindle speed & shut coolant off then retract out and go to the next hole.

[crazy^millman]

16 minutes ago, GARRJESS said:

When using Advanced drilling is there any way to back the drill off the bottom of the hole say by .100 before it retracts out of the hole. I'm using a 15xd drill that is following a pilot hole and I have the advanced drill feature working in a blind hole. But I want to back it off the bottom of the hole them reduce spindle speed & shut coolant off then retract out and go to the next hole.

 

Yes just add that segment for the advanced drill operation.

[GARRJESS]

I thought it would be that easy, but when I add it & regen the operation it doesn't stick. Looks the same before I tried to ad that back up move.

[GARRJESS]

So I rebooted MasterCam no change. So I tried to edit the advanced tool path I had and it would not allow to edited it in anyway once saved. So I wrote a new advanced drill tooth path inputting the .100 retract I wanted before the full the full retract and it worked just how I wanted. But once I saved that new Advanced toolpath it would not allow me to add a new depth, so I don't know if this is glitch in Mastercam it seems like you need to write this exactly as you want right out of the gate, because once saved you cannot edit it. I edit it click on blue + the green check and regenerate & it does not take the change I added.

[SlaveCam]

The value inputted into grid won't stick unless you move onto another row. At least in 2021.

[GARRJESS]

I'm in 2022 it won't even accept a new row.

[GARRJESS]

Just got off the phone with our Mastercam reseller, this is an issue in 2022 Mastercam and has been addressed in Mastercam 2023.

[Chally72]

You beat me to it- I was just about to post that using the Blue Apply button in 2022 had an issue with not saving the advanced drill segment. This is fixed in 2023. The workaround for 2022 is to simply not click the blue apply button. The green check will save the segment.

[GARRJESS]

Thank you for the update on saving, that was not passed along by reseller.