tool definition for custom drill cycle

[Leif Johnson from MICO Inc]

Just curious on how to make a custom drill cycle available for selection when defining a tool. I have several VMC cutom cycles that use drills, hones & form tools but none of them show up in the canned cycle field when defining my tools. Is there a way to get my cycles to show up when defining my tools? I use peck1 peck2 & so on for my cycles. Basically just want the option to select the cycle & change those fields.

 

Thanks

Leif

[Leif Johnson from MICO Inc]

I think my original post didn't make much sense. Hopefully this will clarify. When I create a custom tool as undefined, I get no parameters to fill in. Like a drill can set peck depth or an endmill gets rough XY step.

 

 

I would like to have those set so that every time I call up one of my custom cycles, the info is filled in.

 

 

Is this possible?

 

Thanks

Leif

[Jeff the haas_guy]

Yes.

 

In the Operation manager open properties.

Click files.

Under Machine toolpth copy, click edit.

open the control definition.

go to operation defaults and change all the defaults you need to there.

 

Jeff

[Leif Johnson from MICO Inc]

Jeff,

There isn't a operation default for the custom cycle. I tried to save the operation & import it in, but doing that is setting the cycle from the custom drill cycle back to CUSTOM CYCLE #9. When I go to use the cycle, the changes don't show up. Is there a way to keep my names when edit the operation defaults or wouldn't that matter? I would really like to set these fields per tool to compensate for size differences.

 

Thanks

Leif