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No, your tool will retract to the clearance plane, which is wherever the Z is at the start of the cycle. (ie G43 z???)
That is the whole point of G98
Go to your control def, under machine cycles choose return to initial height
problem there is, if I told someone in our shop, keep bumping up the feed till something almost breaks, what they would do is just turn the feed way up and go back to whatever game they were playing on their I-phone. Then, after they snap off a $200 cutter, they'll stick in a new one, press cycle start without checking to make sure nothing moved, and scrap the rest of the order.
For a cobalt drill, you speed is way too high, your feed is WAY too high, and each peck you take is like rapping the end on the drill with a ball peen hammer.
I've been having good luch with OSG VPH drills. They are powdered metal, so they're nowhere near the price of carbide and they work great ininconel.
around here it's like this;
Make sure the enclosure is filled with chips up to the door
The coolant tank should be low enough that the pump is sucking air
DO NOT add way oil until the machine alarms out.
Pins and gages from the previous job should be scattered across the workbench
Pins and gages for the current job should be nowhere in sight.
If your parts are on a cart, make sure they are accompanied by several empty potato chip bags and Monster energy cans
And always remember to leave dirty rags EVERYWHERE
You need to use the material that's called out. Period. We have a number of jobs that are rectangular, but the material only comes in rounds. It's good news for our chip guy.
I didn't see a way to do it exactly, but here's a thought. Have the program set variable #3030, that puts the machine in single block mode. The operator would then have to hit single block to clear it.
Some engineers are more flexible than others, and it's sometimes hard to guess. There may be no reason at all for a 120 deg pont, or there may be a real good reason. Can you drill them with your coolant through drills, a tad high, then go back in with a HSS drill ground to 120 deg and pick out the point?
Ok, this seems to be a bug in verify. It works fine in X5. In X7, it looks right in backplot, but it won't work in verify, UNLESS--
if you delete the inside radius and make it a sharp corner, all is well
What Cjep said, + if you have a center line, it has to be a center line.
I would select your chain and blank it. Then hit Fit to screen and delete everything. Then unblank your chain.
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