G84 Rigid tapping and more

[camsoft]

You can have both R and P in a G81 or G84.

We can tell you that any of the canned cycles are fully user customizable.

Both R and P can be given on the same line.

We would not recommend the G00 Z5.000 on the same line as G81. Place this on the line before G81. If a rapid and Z position such as G00 Z5.000 will always be given then the R does not need to be given in the canned cycle.

It's hard to give a specific advice because we don't know what software product or version you have. You can do this yourself if you are familar with our commands. Most other systems have fixed canned cycles but in CamSoft the canned cycle logic and order of events is user definable. If you don't know how you can contact your dealer to make this happen.


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[miran70]

yes i know the G00 Z5.00 goes in the line before the G81 cycle it is what sets the P plane Ive tried putting the P in the same line as the r plane and depth and such it doesn't seem to read it i guess ill have to take a look at the logic to see if i can get it to work boss wont hire anyone to fix this.

[Karl_T]

ya but if you put in say R5.0 it will start feeding from that point im talking about whats called a P plane as in any other controllers it will be listed as say
G00 Z5.000 G81 Z-.300 R.1 F1.5 P1 X0.0 Y0.0 P1 is a jump height of 5 inches between holes rapid plane remains at .1
as of now the only way i see to do it is to create a new drill cycle for each hole

Well, you can program anything you want in Camsoft. The way I did my canned cycles: Look at the current Z position for the rapid traverse plane. ie. if you want rapid taverse at Z=5 just do a G0 Z5 first. Then the R plane is the height to start drilling. Nearly always 0 as i set Z0 as the part top surface.

G0 Z5
G81 X1 Y1 Z-2 R0 F4

will rapid at z=5 to x=1 y=1, then rapid to Z=0 then feed at 4ipm to z=-2

There is no reason you can't program the P value to be the upper plane if you'd rather.

[miran70]

Mmmm it does that for one hole but what if you have 20 holes will it go back to 5 inches away then do it again? mine isn't im wondering if someone didn't finish the logic or something

[Karl_T]

Yes, goes back to Z5 at end of each hole. Just add the X Y coords after the G81, its modal.

Early in this thread is the example code for all the G8x canned cycles.

Karl