topic Re: Drill cycle off! in PowerMill Forum

Drill cycle off!

James-b123 — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 09:39:18 GMT

Hello,

we use a company wide start up macro to make sure all setting are uniform.

is there a way of adding something to this to make drill cycle off as a default.

thanks

Re: Drill cycle off!

cfastNJWK6 — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:00:57 GMT

To turn off drilling cycles you have 2 options. You can turn it off on each individual toolpath, or you can turn it off in the NC Program. The easiest solution may be to write a macro that loops through every item in an NC program and turns drilling cycles off. The only ways that I know of to change this on each individual toolpath would be to write a macro to create your drilling toolpaths, or edit the .ptf files that are imported for each individual drilling strategy. The latter is labor intensive and would likely have to be redone every time you install a new version of PowerMill.

Re: Drill cycle off!

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:25:15 GMT

Add EDIT DRILL CYCLES OFF to your startup macro

Re: Drill cycle off!

James-b123 — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:11:32 GMT

i have tried that and it doesnt work

Re: Drill cycle off!

Jonathan_Artiss19 — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:29:15 GMT

This is something you can build into your post which is likely the more secure solution. This way even if the toggle is switched to output with cycle mode, nothing will happen to the code. Or you could also build in an error message that warns the user and cancels post processing.

Re: Drill cycle off!

James-b123 — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:38:51 GMT

yes it seems like it would be the most foolproof way to go about it, might be the only way really

cheers

Re: Drill cycle off!

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 21:35:13 GMT

you could change the drill cycle value to 0 in the default templates directory - you would have to do it for each toolpath