Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Drilling with Vector

Thanks Fred, you just answered my 2nd question to Tim. His way worked. Now
I'll try it the Vector way. So far I've just been cutting air.

Incidentally, I did look through the archive before asking, but was unable
to find it. Gotta hone my search skills.

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: imserv1 <imserv@...>
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Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 11:48 AM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Drilling with Vector


> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "David Goodfellow" <davegood@g...> wrote:
> > I've been playing with Vector 9.3 for the past two days (crash
> course) and
> > I've been able to draw pretty well with it. Now I'm trying to
> drill a
> > milling plate and have come up with a problem so basic I'm almost
> > embarrassed to ask the question, but here goes:
> >
> > How do you make it drill?
>
> Dave,
>
> This kind of question has been answered many times on our Vector user
> forum. There is a text searchable archive of 3 years on the Vector
> distribution CD, as well as the current and archival record on the web
> (also text searchable) at http://www.vectorcam.com
>
> Look under support at our web site.
>
> The answer will depend on the kind of machine controller that you are
> using. There are many many ways to approach drilling. This is only
> one of the possible methods in Vector:
>
> If your machine supports peck drilling, you draw a point at the depth
> you want to drill, at the locations you want, and pick the drilling
> cycle from the Cycle menu. Vector then interactively lets you input
> the drilling parameters as user inputs, generates the coordinate
> values and spits out the G80 at the end.
>
> Most of the preconfigured controllers included with Vector have the
> automated drilling cycles implemented.
>