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Good afternoon team, I'm fond of using my insert drill (u-drill) as a boring bar in my lathe, but am struggling to get this to work properly in MCam 2023. I have found this forum post from 2017 which suggests some workarounds, but they also suggest that the functionality I'm after is "in the works". I'm happy enough to use two offsets to define the drill centerline and the outer insert edge, but the 3D tool designer does not seem to have an option for drills, and the 2D tool definition does not seem to have the option of a custom drill definition (for the non-straight cutting edges created by the udrill inserts). I have defined the udrill as a boring bar in the 3D tool editor, and I can use this in the "lathe drill" operation with an X offset of 10.0mm to produce the correct simulation; but I then have to mod the output Gcode to get it to output the appropriate X value. I'm trying to set the program up for newbies, and I don't want them messing with GCode. Is anyone able to make a suggestion for me please? I'm not sure if I'm just missing something really simple or not.
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Has anyone figured out how to define a u-drill to drill and bore without having to define a drill and boring bar separately. I need to be able to accomplish this so that my machine simulation is accurate with the correct tools loaded on the turret. Any ideas? Thanks, Jer
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