drill cycle and pst

[Robby GM]

in drill cycle page ,

Retract = what in post ?

Top of Stock = what in post ?

Depth = depth

Drill variable formats...

refht ??? or some thing else..

[This message has been edited by Robby GM (edited 02-21-2001).]

[Allan]

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g 81: Drill Cycle (gcode)

1 Drill cycle type (drillcyc)

0: Simple drilling

1: Peck drilling

2: Chip break

3: Tap

4: Bore #1

5: Bore #2

6: Misc. #1

7: Misc. #2

8-19: Custom cycles

2 X position (xnci)(x)

3 Y position (ynci)(y)

4 Z position (znci)(depth)

(XYZ is a 3d point that represents the drill point at the bottom of the hole)

5 Dwell time (dwell)

6 Feedrate (frplunge)

7 First peck amount (peck1)

8 Additional peck amounts (peck2)

9 Peck clearance (peckclr)

10 Chip break retract (retr)

11 Drill cycle initial height (initht)

(the distance from the selected drill position (zdrl) to the initial height, sign positive for above zdrl)

12 Drill cycle reference height (refht)

(the distance from the selected drill position (zdrl) to the reference height, sign positive for above zdrl)

13 Drill depth (zdrl)

(the distance from the selected drill position (zdrl) to the top of stock, sign positive for above zdrl)

14 Boring bar clearance shift amount (shftdrl)

15 U position (u)

16 V position (v)

17 W position (w)

(UVW is a 3d point that represents the initial height point)

18 Control flags

19 Drill depth (rev_drl5)

(indicates a reversal of the drill direction from the UVW point to the XYZ point when 1)

NOTE:

The following data is calculated if ‘vers_no’ is 8 or greater. The parameters passed in the NCI are overwritten by the calculations:

depth from (z)

zdrl(calculated) from w - initht

refht from zdrl(calculated) + refht

tosz(top of stock) from zdrl(calculated) + zdrl(original)

initht from (w)

This snipit is from the posthelp chook in V8 the variable names are listed except for the top of stock.

11 May 00 - MP, MPL, MPWIRE V8.00

The variable 'tosz' is calculated from the new drill cycle format

for the "top of stock" value entered in Mastercam.

 

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