Hi Guys
Thanks very much for the replies and sorry for not posting back sooner
I gave up on lazy cam in the end as said, just because organising the chains is complete nightmare and even when putting just two rows in and finding the g-code to sub routine was out of the question
And reason we needed them orderd is that even tho they all get do get drilled, the time it takes changes from about hour or so to something like 2 half hours to 3 hours when drilling the holes and we drill at least 20 to 30 tables for our jobs daily, so our lead time would be way out from our current time
Here is the image of the drawing by the way as to example what were trying to achieve
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee418/jamesBW/FOREXWHITECUTTINGBOARD2240X1220.jpgOutside borders are the table edge, and first hole from datum is X Axis - 20mm Y Axis 20mm hole pitch is 20mm
The table dimensions are as follows
X Axis = 2440 mm
Y Axis = 1220 mm
Might be quite intresting if you could code that bobshop i need to learn how to sub routine on this
Lazycam does read the drawing quite well but like i said the chains it automaticly generates arnt organised really, they jump from corner point to the middle of some other row. But like Rich says what do you want for free
I used the wizard for rectangle hole patterns as suggested by Bobshop but it was bloody confusing, but we got it going in the end. It works pretty good but like i said it was confusign and took us a while o work out. We managed to generate the pattern but it tried to fit something like 50 x 50 holes in a 30mm box on the table which miffed us for awhile but we came to grips with it and got it right
We worked out a formula as well of how to work out the holes, so i can post it up if anyone finds it usefull