Drill cycle

[connormac]

I give up. I'm trying to drill deep holes thru a blank of aluminum. .70 deep with stub drill, then go back thru 2.9" deep with jobber drill.

if I set retract to -.65, top of stock to -.65 and depth to -2.9 it works except there is know way to clear chips off drill. ( .123" drill)

 

If I set retract to -.1 it starts drilling at -.1.

 

Is there any way to start at -.65 but retract to -.1

[Matthew]

I've come to this before also. I usually just start the second drill at the top of the hole and let it drill down. But I think I've read in the past about outputting long code instead of using the drill cycles. Maybe something could be setup to make that work how you want it. However I'm not the person to advise how to do it!

[crazy^millman]

Custom long code drill cycle would be your best or a Macro should do what you are after.

[William Grizwald]

Just thinking out loud here...

 

Short of macros, custom cycles, linear moves, or hand edits, an "approach" plane in addition to the start, retract, and clearance planes would work. That would allow you to feed quickly from the approach plane to the start point - but not a rapid. It would have many uses in milling operations as well. Other systems have this.

 

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Bill

[Zbuilder]

I had this approach plane R- value working in an old post but now the X2 post is a lot different & I don't know where to put it or what variables it needs. (don't know much about posts)

It was set under the Drill Custom Paramteres tab. I'm trying to figure it out now.

[Zbuilder]

The old variable was drl_prm1 (pre X2). Does anyone know what the varibla eis for X2?

[Guest]

drl_prm1$

[Zbuilder]

Tried that, it didn't work. But my fault I should have clarified waht I wanted. I need to know the variables for the Custom Parameters tab.

[Guest]

The available variables on the custom drill paramaters tab are

 

drl_prm1$

drl_prm2$

drl_prm3$

drl_prm4$

drl_prm5$

drl_prm6$

drl_prm7$

drl_prm8$

drl_prm9$

drl_prm10$

 

on the drill page

 

peck1$

peck2$

peckclr$

retr$

dwell$

shftdrl$

[Zbuilder]

Cool, works great! Thanks