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  1. #1
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    Drilling cycles

    I'm back to doing some milling in edgecam, and it's been a while and i'm rusty.

    I'm stuck with my drilling cycle:
    G81 G98 R5.0 Z-5.5 F75.0

    I want the G98 to be a G99 (governing whether the retract height is to the R plane or to the initial plane).
    There's a setting somewhere in the drill dialogue box to choose, but can I find it? Nope.

    Anyone?

    J

  2. #2
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    All you have to do is put a value in the retract filed and it will output a G98. If it's left blank then you get a G99
    Mike W.

  3. #3
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    Hi
    In the depth tab in the drilling dialog box make the figures in the level & retract equal to the clearance figure and you will get a G99, if the combined figures of the level & retract are less than the clearance you will get a G98.
    Hope this is helpful.

  4. #4
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    THIS IS WHAT SHOULD BE IN THE APPROPRIATE CODE CONSTRUCTOR BOX


    [DELETE][BLKNUM][PECKGCODE][XMOVE][YMOVE][ZDEPTH][PECKDEPTH][RPLANE][CYCLEZFEED][RETRACTGCODE]

    WHICH YEILDS THE CODE....
    N6 G73 Z-?.?? Q0.? R0.1 P0.5 F?.?? G98
    DONT MIND MY SPELLING ... IM JUST A MASHINIST

  5. #5
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    Ah ha! That's the one. And people say Edgecam is unintuitive..pah. :tired:

    ta!

    Quote Originally Posted by JS TRIDAN View Post
    Hi
    In the depth tab in the drilling dialog box make the figures in the level & retract equal to the clearance figure and you will get a G99, if the combined figures of the level & retract are less than the clearance you will get a G98.
    Hope this is helpful.

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