Silly drills!

[Zoeper]

Hi All,

I've created two drilling paths in lathe, one for a spot drill, and the other for a standard drill. Problem is that no matter whitch one i change, the other changes with it. Why does the one associate with the other? and how do i seperate the two? there is another cutting toolpath in between them.

Lathe 9.1

Thanx

Pieter

[DavidB]

Are they using the same tool number?

[Bruce Caulley]

Did you copy the geometry from the first into the second? In 9.1 it askes if you want to retain merged depths I think.

 

Bruce

[Zoeper]

Hi David, All well down under?

They do come up with the same tool No's but if i change one tje other follows automatically??

I will see what happens if i create a new tool from scratch.

[DavidB]

You need to create two tools one the spot drill say, Tool 1 and Tool 2 the drill. You can do what Bruce said and drag the geom from the spot drill to the drill op this is a handy hint specially for mill. But in lathe I asume your drilling at X0 Z0. Don't try changing the tool number in one op it will update all toolpaths using that tool. Thats what the associativity of the toolpaths is. There trying to use the same tool. So if you change the tool in one toolpath ALL toolpaths using that tool will need a regen.

Create another tool.

 

HTH

[DC Gorn]

I think what happened is you coppied the one drill path to make the second drill path. When you did MC asked you "Do you want maintain depths" you answered yes. That locks the two depth. I have found no quick fix for this. Delete the coppied path, recopy this time say no.

[beej]

DC the quick fix for that is to copy the geo again and it will ask again to maintain depths. Just say no this time and the depth field will not be grayed out anymore

[Zoeper]

I solved my problem by creating a new tool altogether. Seems like the one tool was a copy of the other that was then modified (the tool not the toolpath) It even says in the program code (LDrill copy(xxxxx) of lathe toolxxxxx

I think that's where the association comes from.

Thanx for the help!

Pieter