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My lathe post creates the following for peck drilling. Peck depth is supposed to be 0.05". Any suggestions on what to fix in the post, or why this is happening? And no, I don't have G83. That is why this is longhand.
Peck drilling is turned on in the machine definition.
This is a random error, that happens most of the time.
(And, is it possible to get the subsequent rapid to stop just before the last drill depth, without writing a custom drill cycle?) N110 G0 X1.0 Z6.0 N120 G0 T0707 M41 N130 G97 S2000 M03 N140 G0 X0. Z.05 M8 N150 Z.1 N160 G99 G1 Z.04 F.005 N170 G0 Z.1 N180 Z.04 N190 G1 Z-.02 N200 G0 Z.1 N210 Z-.02 N220 G1 Z-.0506 << this is where it gets off. It should be 0.05. N230 G0 Z.1 N240 Z-.0506 N250 G1 Z-.0662 N260 G0 Z.1 N270 Z-.0662 N280 G1 Z-.0742 N290 G0 Z.1 N300 Z-.0742 N310 G1 Z-.0782 N320 G0 Z.1 N330 Z-.0782 N340 G1 Z-.0803 N350 G0 Z.1 N360 Z-.0803 N370 G1 Z-.0814 N380 G0 Z.1 . . . to infinity pecks...
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