Hello Guys,

Been breaking my self in to this new hobby, literally! I broke another endmill. I need to think twice and cut once. Anyway, does anyone know if you can use a drawing symbol that mach3 would interpret as a drill point?

Thanks,

Mike

Mike,
Not sure what you are trying to do. If you are using LazyCam and want to define what points are to be drilled you can just draw a circle where the drilled holes are in CAD.
See page 41 in the manual.

RICH

Sorry for such a long delay, I am up to my eyeballs with work... at my work.

Hello Rich, sorry I didn't provide more details on what I was doing. I was importing dxf drawings using an older version of mach3 that has the import feature. The dxf files I import treat circles as circles which is fine but I was wondering if there was a symbol with crossing lines like + or X that would be interpreted as a centroid. I was able to edit the G-code and change G2 to G83, but I ended up changing some circles to drill by accident. If I can use a symbol then importing a dxf would be a little easier.

I am only playing around for the time being.  I am saving up for Visual Mill which will make a lot of things possible, but I was experimenting with cutting simple parts and the old mach3 dxf was a great starting point and I have cut several shapes so far using this utility.

Thanks,
Mike

Mike,
Not to my knowledge and don't use or know anything about the old version of Mach.

RICH

Most CAms use a standard point to represent a drill point. Just insert a point where you want the hole.

(;-) TP