I am cutting the cranckase to rough size after mounting the bearing caps and ended up copying and pasting in the edit G code screen. I know there is a method for repeating a cycle, but haven't found it yet. Most of the wizards waste the motion since I already have the cavity and just need to face the caps and remove a little excess casting material. A typical first pass is
Z.6
X.5 Y-2
X2.5
Y-3.5
X.5
Y2 Z.5
Each time around .1" deeper cut feeding at 7 ipm. I have started out running everything ablolute from the 0,0 point established on the block, but for the rough machining the pockets that were the same size could be done as G91.
The block is in the show and tell section and I'll post a current shot.
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