Custom Drill Ops

[John Hill @ Poplar Hill Machine]

Hey All,

 

Ok, so I'm starting to dig into modifying a post and have a question on a custom drill cycle. The post I'm modifying is the Generic Fanuc 4x.

 

I have set up a custom drill cycle for rigid tapping using G93 under what appears to be custom drill cycle 9: Control Definition > Text > Mill Drill Cycles > column labeled [drill cycle 9]. I see *NO* [drill cycle 8] just [misc2] to the left and [drill cycle 10] to the right.

 

The issue I have is that in the post, I have to set up drill cycle 8 to get the correct output...not 9...what am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks,

 

John

[Psychomill]

Do you really need a custom cycle for rigid tapping? Because you could just add the G93 to be output with the existing tap cycle in the post....

 

Or are you trying to control the feedrate output by giving an option of G93 or G94?

 

[Tim Johnson]

You're doing just fine. I don't what the logic is with the cycle count but it works.

[John Hill @ Poplar Hill Machine]

I'm using this post for both a Yasnac & Fanuc control with the only difference being the rigid tapping...G95 on one and G93 on the other. I want to be able to select which one to use from the operation.

 

Thanks,

 

John

[Guest]

John,

 

If you outputs are the same except for the G93/G95 line you could set a misc int to check for and output the correct code depending on the value in the box

[Guest]

To try to answer your question John,

 

Whenever I create a custom cycle, I always start at #9, I know 8 is somehow available but I always end up leaving it and starting with 9.

 

Just my way around it.

 

You can try using this to see what cycle you are actually out putting

 

code:

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~drillcyc, e$ 

if drillcyc$ = 10,

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place the ~drillcyc, e$

before the cycle call and it will force out which cycle has been called in the post.