[CNC_noobie]

Long story short my works old bridgeport finally died. They got me an Anilam 3300mk. When they bought it the previous owner was to install several programs to fit our needs at the shop. Well now no one can get a hold of him. So they tossed the manual at me and said " make it work"

Well i kinda did but it has a few hick-ups i could use some help with. I need a program that drills 11 holes in pipe at 15/16" at 2.25" spacing and will need to adjust the "y" axis regularly. The program i have in will do it but i have to press the "start" button every hole (Drops down, Mills the hole, comes up moves to next position then i have to press start to initiate the program again. and do this 10 times.) even though its in Auto setting. How can i fix this so it runs the whole program without it acting like its not in "step" mode. The program looks like this (minus a few things since im at home atm like Zdepth and the depth at which it feeds) with tool#1 being a 1/2" bit

1) Dim Abs
2) Rapid X 0.000 Y 0.000 Z 0.100 Tool#0
3) HolePock X0.00 Y 0.000 .......................tool #1
4) Rapid X 2.250 Y 0.000 Z 0.2500 Tool#0
5) HolePock X 2.250 Y 0.000 Z 0.100.............. tool #1

This pattern just repeats until all 11 holes are drilled. I would love to loop it in a Sub program but have yet to fully understand it and make it work. Once again any help would be greatly appreciated.

[CNC_noobie]

It's giving me a message saying, " program stopped on tool mount, press start." Between every hole being milled.

[tpodgwaite]

That's what they do every time they see a tool # in the program. Put Tool # 1 in once, it stays active until you program a Tool #0, or any other Tool #. Put it in once and the message will only come up that one time when it hits that line. Good luck. Tim