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Drill cycle off!

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James-b123
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Drill cycle off!

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

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cfastNJWK6
in reply to: James-b123

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.

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Anonymous
in reply to: James-b123

Add EDIT DRILL CYCLES OFF to your startup macro

 

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James-b123
in reply to: Anonymous

i have tried that and it doesnt work

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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. 

Jonathan Artiss
Senior Applications Engineer | DSI

Autodesk Expert Elite member
DSI, Design and Software International Autodesk Gold Partner

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

cheers

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Anonymous
in reply to: James-b123

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

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