Creating Drilling Cycle

[edulmes]

I am using Autodesk Inventor Pro 2008 with OneCNC XR2 Mill, and am trying to drill about 1200 holes to create a vaccuum table.

Is there any other way to create this toolpath than to individually select each point to make a drilling cycle? Is there some way for OneCNC to recognize points from Inventor and select all the geometry?

[wms]

Should be no problem..are you using the Hole Feature Recognition??

It will find points..

Do you have an XFA file??

You could also post over at the user's forum..

[Geof]

Have a look at Post #8 in this thread;

please be patient with me

I give a program that can be changed to do any size of hole array.

[edulmes]

wms, how do I import the points into OneCNC from inventor? They don't seem to be saved into an IGES file. I created a rectangular array of center points in Inventor. Are these read by OneCNC?

Geof, I have never used direct code. How would I use your program to create an 9x8 array of holes .25" or .5" apart?

[edulmes]

I figured out how to do it, it is so simple once I started to look. I just found the hole pattern grid command, and then used the hole recognition feature.

[Geof]

...Geof, I have never used direct code. How would I use your program to create an 9x8 array of holes .25" or .5" apart?

You should be able to figure it out from the description I gave. I am off on vacation for a couple of weeks. If you have not figured it out by then and do really want to know I can give a longer explanation.

[wms]

I figured out how to do it, it is so simple once I started to look. I just found the hole pattern grid command, and then used the hole recognition feature.

Glad to hear.