Hi,
I THINK if I had spare stock to test drill dozens of holes I could speed things up considerably. CNC only follows instructions, so at least on my homebuilt beast CNC can never detect and react to a hole that is not yet centered, or to a fixture that is beginning to flex, or tooling that is starting to vibrate, etc. That is where the human touch -- watching, listening, and compensating can make such dramatic decreases in cutting time. Actually, if I could afford the luxury of a drill press and a high helix cobalt bit, I wouldn't mind competing with a low-end CNC machine.
Getting back on topic, does anyone know if motor tuning, i.e. acceleration/deceleration is saved with each screenset? I THINK I may be able to reduce dwell by making a screenset just for manual drilling with minimal deceleration settings. Just a thought I will soon test.
Still, can someone THINK of a way to detect actual time of motion stopped? isMoving appears not to work in a script that didn't initiate the movement.
All the best, and think different,
Scott