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  1. #1
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    V30 rotary 4th axis drilling wont rotary..... lol

    Good morning All,

    i have a part set up in my okuma MA650 with OSP200M control. the part is set up in a rotary 4th axis, with the rotational axis being parallel to x. i need to drill some holes about the outer diameter at misc degrees of seperation.

    now, when i try to start a drilling operation in BobCAD, i follow all the steps from the tutorial videos (select cross drilling/select axis of rotation/ect), only geometry that lines up perfectly with my z axis is able to be selected, in this case, 2 out of the 80 holes that actually need drilled. what am i missing?
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    Re: V30 rotary 4th axis drilling wont rotary..... lol

    Think you should be selecting "Multiaxis Drilling" instead of the "Cross Drilling", seems to work here OK, see image



    Hope this helps
    Regards
    Rob

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    Re: V30 rotary 4th axis drilling wont rotary..... lol

    i had tried that last week and it didnt seem to work, must have been doing something different, seems to be working today....
    i also had errors in my retraction setting that were making it act funny, had to change the rotational indexing axis from Z to X, and from plane to cylinder..

    anyways, thank you for your reply, i should be good to go now!

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