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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Re: Indexed drilling using 4th axis

« on: January 27, 2015, 08:25:48 PM »

That makes sense now!  Thank you for being patient with me : )

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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Re: Indexed drilling using 4th axis

« on: January 27, 2015, 02:05:56 PM »

Thank you, that is exactly what I needed!  This will make it so much easier to change the # of holes needed. 
But one last question: shouldn't the descriptions of #3 and # 4 be switched?
Seems like the expression #3= [#1/#2] refers to number of indexes, rather than degrees. 
Please advise.  Thanks.

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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Re: Indexed drilling using 4th axis

« on: January 26, 2015, 01:01:24 PM »

OK, so I understood some of the canned cycles code : )
But could use some additional clarification about this line:

G1 G81 Z-0.000  R0.250  F30      -- Start the drill cycle to drill the first hole at A0.000
So for drilling hole 1 mm deep I would put Z-1, and to retract it back, R should be 1 as well, no? Does F30 refers to both drilling and retracting feed? Can I specify retract feed to be faster? 

As far as A positions code: if for example I need to drill 55 holes equally spaced around 360 degree rotation, is there a way to program to do that automatically in equal increments, instead of specifying and manually adding together the degree positions? 

Please advise.
Thank you.

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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Re: Indexed drilling using 4th axis

« on: January 26, 2015, 11:52:20 AM »

Thank you for such a detailed answer.  I will try both methods out.   

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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Re: Indexed drilling using 4th axis

« on: January 26, 2015, 10:05:36 AM »

Thank you for that link.  As you said, I think in this case it would be easier to just program by hand.  This wizard seems pretty complicated, and possibly beyond my abilities.
Since I am just a newbie in Mach3, could you please show me bit of a sample code for such an operation.  I would very much appreciate it.  Thank you.   

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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Indexed drilling using 4th axis

« on: January 25, 2015, 11:15:00 PM »

I am curious if it is possible to use a wizard to drill holes by indexing with a 4th axis.  So let's say I want to drill a hole 5 mm deep every 60 degrees of rotation. 
Is this something that is possible to do with MillWizard?