Cycle formats

Drill

This block contains the canned cycle for twist drill operations including the support of peck drilling.

For drilling, the following reserved words have the following values:

• <DEPTH> - the calculated depth of the drilling operation including compensation for tool tip.
• <STEP1> - pecking depth. This value is calculated by dividing <DEPTH> by the Number of Pecks.

This is an example drilling cycle format:

{N<SEQ>}G83X0Z<DEPTH>Q<STEP1>F<FEED><EOB>

Refer to the Numeric drilling and threading type cycle words table for applicable reserved words.

Tap

Enter the program block for tapping. For this operation <DEPTH> is the depth of the tapping operation.

Refer to the Numeric drilling and threading type cycle words table for applicable reserved words.

Thread

When one of these options is chosen, the required format may be entered for the threading program block.

Refer to the Numeric drilling and threading type cycle words table for applicable reserved words.

Groove

There are three turning groove canned cycle formats available in XBUILD, and they apply in two different situations.

There are two kinds of grooving canned cycle: simple canned cycle and path canned cycle. If you choose not to use any canned cycles, then you'll be using longhand code referred to as computed.