c/l cylinder off c/rotation drilling

[ken wong]

Hi !

i have to drill 20 holes around cylinder on horizontal 4axis . if i can put exactly centre line of cylinder in centre of table rotation , the program will be simple by drill one hole then transform rotate around origin . but for some reason centre of cylnder of c/rotation are off and transform rotate toolpath give wrong codes , and i have to do c/p and t/p in every hole that really long way , i know you guys have better way ,please tell me

i use x4-mu3

thanks

[Mike Whitten CAD/CAM Contractors]

You can use "Rotary axis positioning"(See "axis control"). You can even use "Drill 5 Axis".

[Jayson Kramer]

do drill 5X and output 4th.

[Guest]

Check out the FTP, X4 files.

 

I did a file, simple rotary drill.mcx

 

it takes the rotary holes, unrolls them, uses drilling and axis substitution to create the cycle.

[ken wong]

thank guys i will try and let u know , thank alot

[ken wong]

drill 5x output 4x works for me in this case centre of cylider off c/rotation

thanks