Drilling different heights

[S/X]

I took a look in the search department of things, but couldn't find exactly what I was looking for. Just a quick question about having to drill different z heights. Is there a way of doing that in one program or do I have to split them up according to the different plane heights?

[Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc]

you can use 'incremental' retracts/top of stock and even depth.

[mross]

+1000 'incremental'

 

alot of people shy away from using incremental, at least what I have noticed. it can sure make life alot easier and shorten up the amount of ops you use.

[J Coulston]

I like using incremental depths.

 

Be careful!!

 

Make sure you select your geometry at the correct Z height.

 

If you use an absolute clearance and an incremental retract height, watch out MC kicks a G99 instead of a G98. You will not see the crash until you are running it on the machine!!!!!!

[J. Rod Rood Warmoth Guitar]

Everybody's singin' the same song. May I add my two cents - yes, use incremental depth on the parameters page. Geometry selected for drill depth for all depths need to be at the proper z depth. I use points at the z depth and select them in the optimal order manually. Mastercam can select, sort with window and sometimes it works ok.

[S/X]

Thank you very much. I definately was one who shyed away from incremental, but I will definately start using it to speed things up.