This morning I had an easy 1 op, 3 pass job to do on 50 pieces. Before May of this year, I would have done this on my old manual Burke mill and left the spindle running the whole time.
So, after a few editing trials I accomplished this on the Tormach by removing the M5 and M30 from the program. Worked great, however, the actual job cycle time was only 20 seconds and I noticed PathPilot waited 8 seconds ramping the RPM up on screen (even though the spindle was already at full chat) before proceeding with the initial Z plunge after each cycle start. So, it could have been a 12 second cycle or 40% of the total job time waiting on phantom spindle ramp-up time. Anyone work around these time losses on large, short cycle jobs? Maybe there's a more elegant way to accomplish what I wanted?
Safety, lawyers, dismemberment, I know....