This tutorial is designed to give you an understanding of drilling formats. You will create programs that use explicit linear moves and canned cycles. This tutorial is in metric units.
Specific Instructions
- Open 002.fm from the Examples\Tutorials\XBUILD folder. This is just a simple hole that is spot-drilled and drilled.
- Generate toolpaths, and single step through the program. This simple program spot drills in a single move, changes tools and peck drills the hole. The spot drilling is performed by the Drill_Cycle format, and the peck drilling is performed by the Deep_Hole cycle.
- Edit the hole. Click the hole operation, and change the Drill operation cycle to Chip Break on the Cycle tab.
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Regenerate the code. The call to the Deep_Hole cycle has been changed to a call to the Chip_Break cycle.
Program_Start Z_Rapid Drill_Cycle Cycle_Cancel Z_Rapid Tool_Change Z_Rapid Deep_Hole Cycle_Cancel Z_Rapid Program_End File_End
- If the
.CNC file does not contain NC codes for drilling cycles, <PRODUCT> creates explicit moves. Open the post textnodrillcycles.CNC, and create the code. The following code (without canned cycles) is created.
Program_Start Z_Rapid Linear_Move Z_Rapid Tool_Change Z_Rapid Linear_Move Z_Rapid Linear_Move Z_Rapid Linear_Move Z_Rapid Program_End File_End