Originally Posted by broby  Re-reading your original post, <SNIP>
Might be one of those issues where you have to accept the requirements and move on.
Regards
Brian. |
I had also done a program restart in there. I snipped the first drill cycle (different tool) out of the program. That had to clear a known point on the fixture so it was easy to set the correct G71 and retract 1in past that point and move to the second hole with the first drill, however I had to stop the machine and do a pallet rotation to B45. after the first tool operation to check that the hole was centered in the boss because if the y offset was too low 30mm would strike a rail on the casting. The drill only has about .08in clearance below it with nominal placement of the 30mm hole.
Your right I might just have to accept it and stick in the back of my mind for future programs, but I was hoping to understand the reasoning behind it. When hand editing something like this and proofing it myself this is easy enough to deal with, but with new work coming in it will be code generated from our cam software so it is something that could and should be fixed before sending the program to the machine.