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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
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