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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lazycam Drill Patterns pitches

« on: October 31, 2011, 07:45:38 AM »

BR549 that codes brilliant!!!

how exactly is it incrementing on the Y axis and working out the pitch ?

Im guessign the % is the sub routine command as well

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lazycam Drill Patterns pitches

« on: October 31, 2011, 07:28:59 AM »

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.jpg

Outside 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

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General Mach Discussion / Lazycam Drill Patterns pitches

« on: October 28, 2011, 07:45:01 AM »

Good Morning All,

Im having some difficulty with drill patterns on lazycam

I need to drill a series of holes into a aluminuim table that will be used as a vacuum table

The issue i have is when i export a DXF file from solidworks with hole circles removed and replaced with points, the laycam software reads it fine but the chains it creates are all over the place

I currently have to drag and move chains in order to create drill pattern pitches, currently dummy running this with only 8 holes to get speeds and movement right but the issue i have is that these tables we have are 2440 mm x 1220 mm and will require well over 4000 holes drilled

I was looknig into working out the order of two rows of holes that can be drilled and then create a sub routine to repeat the pattern of holes along the table

But i cant seem to find out how to do that easily or find a gcode to do this, im quite new to this as well so im kinda hitting the ground running on this so forgive me if i dont understand some terms