I saw a video the other day for a Makino I think which had a drill cycle that, instead of moving straight up then straight over, it "arced" out of the hole to the next hole. I feel like this is something that would be doable in HSM and wondered if anyone had ever suggeted it before? It wouldnt have to be just for drill cycles, really anything could benefit from it. I have a program that drills 50 holes in a plate, then comes in and bores them with an endmill, then chamfers the rims. I feel like gobs of time could be saved by having one fluid motion from one hole to the next. Only thing I would suggest is using true arcs instead of points along the way so that non-high speed look ahead machines can benefit from it as well. Thanks!
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