I guess that is still one thing that the Bostomatic SPC II control has going for it after all these years. You can design your own special can cycle for any type of drilling you dream up and have SmartCAM's code generator code them for you. Also, you can restart a tool from any line number.
-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:31 AM To: JNB; SmartCAM User Group Subject: Re: [mfg-smartcam] R levels At 07:49 PM 3/30/2004 -0800, JNB wrote: >Hello group, > >Am I missing something? Why would you want to have an R level of 0.0 on >any tool? >This leaves no room for error when the operator decides to adjust the >depth .050. >Drill's don't like slamming into the part before the cut. >I do programs with over 60 tools and many differant R levels and don't >have a problem with it. >Is this a new practice that I've not heard of in my 25 years of machining? > >Jeff Jeff, Our Cincinnati's with 850 and 950 controllers have a default R Plane of 0.1000 on all the drill cycles. 98% of our machines are Cinci's. We are just trying to speed up some of the drilling cycles. Since we do a lot of the same parts and we usually have 4 or more drilling cycles and anywhere from 5 to 40 drill cycles per machine cycle, we can save a little time. Is it worth it? I can't really say, but this is what the company and some of the operators want so I have to conform my programming habits to appease everyone. Personally I can't see it saving a whole lot of time. I hope this clarifies everything. Kevin Clark Programmer Abbott Workholding Inc. ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================== ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
