Helix Bore Crash???

[Newbeeee™]

Hi All,

Just playing with helix bore toolpath.

3mm cutter spiral into some plastic 4.5mm deep.

I don't want to use a finish pass, just spiral in and then out to the next hole.

It backplots and verifies ok, but the tool wants to move to the next hole position before retracting:-

 

G43 Z100. H2

Z25.

Z2.

G1 Z0. F250.

G3 G41 D2 Y-1.615 R.8

Z-1. J1.6

Z-2. J1.6

Z-3. J1.6

Z-4. J1.6

Y1.585 Z-4.5 J1.6

J-1.6

G40 Y-.015 R.8

G0 X11.352 Y5.004 <<<<<<<<

Z2.

G1 Z0.

 

I've never used this path before for doing this, so it maybe me.

If not, where do I start looking???

 

Cheers

[gcode]

There is a bug with Clearance and Retract settings

in Helix bore. Do you have Clearnace disabled??

The system ignores Retract and goes to Clearance between each hole.. so if you have Retract set and Clearance off, that may be the problem

[Newbeeee™]

gcode, thanks for the reply.

The above was posted with 'use clearance at start and end of operation only' ticked.

It also had 'retract' ticked (and a value in there).

 

With it un-ticked, it posts correctly with a clearance move.

So is this a mcam thing or a post issue?

Thanks

[gcode]

Its a bug.. repoted and a bug number issued..

should be fixed in X5

[Newbeeee™]

Thanks