Custom Drilling Cycles

[JoeyW]

Does antone have an example of a post which has "pdrlcst" set up for multiple custom drill cycles (Drill Cycles 8-20). I'm having a little problem setting mine up.

[Allan Brown]

While the variable drillcyc set to 0 (simple drill) branches to pdrill, and drillcyc = 7 branches to pmisc2, drillcyc values from 8 to 19 (Custom cycles 9-20) will branch to the pdrlcst post block for the first point and pdrlcst_2 for subsequent points.

If your post uses a string table for drilling G-Codes (e.g. sgdrill table), you could add entries to the table, and then simply use an output block like you would find under pdrill in your post:

n, *drillref, *sgdrill, pdrlxyrot, *depth, *refht, pdwell, *frplunge

If you have different parameters for each custom cycle, vary the output with a logic statement based on the drillcyc variable:

if drillcyc = 8 , n, *drillref, "G8?", pdrlxyrot, *depth, *refht, pdwell, *peck1, *peck2, *frplunge

These examples assume your post is V6-era Mpfan-based.