Simple fix, I had the arc radius set to the value of the arc diameter. I guess you have to have arcs that are the same size as the bits in your blockdrill.

Correct. I'm calling ZeroPts(), FreeChains(), UnselectAll(), and then multiple AddArcPoint()'s prior to MakeOperationFromName(). Maybe you can't call a blockdrill operation from an .op9 library..

Messing with the drill cycle has no effect. However, I have found my problem and it is that when I was creating my points to be drilled, I used CreateArcPoint instead of CreateDrillPoint. Now I just need to get the blockdrill operations to work, So rather than start a new thread, I'll ask now; When I try to apply a blockdrill operation to any points (created with CreateArcPoint), The operation is created, but under geometry zero points have been selected. Does anyone know why? Thanks.

Does anyone have any experience using MakeDrill or MakeOperation from name? Could anyone show me a script they made where a drill operation was created and this bug I'm having didn't happen. This is only happening with my drill operations, my contour operations work just fine.

bump!

Setting plane height to incremental has no effect. I can set the top of stock with SetTopOfStock and I can manipulate it in the parameters window as well. On a semi-related subject, if I MakeOperationFromName instead MakeDrill, I cannot set the top of stock using SetTopOfStock, but it is still accessible in the parameters window. Also, if I use MakeOperationFromName, I am still locked out of retract and depth.

Thanks for the reply Bulliness I tried this out to no avail. I still remain locked out from "Retract" in the parameters GUI and SetRetractPlane won't change the retract parameter either. The parameters window shows that retract is set to 1.0 but I know this can't be true, because when I verify it my drill bit isn't retracting between holes. And the NC code shows the same thing.

When I make a drill operation using VBScript.. Call MakeDrill("DrillShelf",0,0,3,mctool_drill) ..and then in Mastercam go to the operations menu and try to edit the parameters of my new "DrillShelf" operation, I am locked out from being able to change the "Retract" or "Depth" values. Does anyone know why? And more importantly, does anyone know how to fix this? I've tried.. Call ClearParameters() Call InitParameters() Call SetRetractPlane(1,0,1) ..with no effect on my problem. Thanks in advance.