Originally Posted by
MetalShavings
Setting up hole drilling is now fairly routine for me but, adjusting the depth of my holes in the parameters screens is what's giving me fits.
The depths of my holes rarely seems to come out right. When they do come out correctly, I can't figure out what I did to get them to come out right.
What I've had to do to adjust the depths of my holes is click on the Simulation Tab and then click the little "+" icon to the left of my operation so that the list of individual hole drilling routines is showing.
From there I expand the individual hole drilling routines to show if that particular drilling routine is ON, OFF, DRILL, etc. When I get that far I can reset the exact depth of my holes but, What A Major Hassle.
On some of my projects I can have as many as 20 holes. Having to do this twenty times just to get my drilled holes to the correct depth has gotten ridiculously monotonous; especially when I know there has to be an easier way.
Initially I thought that the way to figure and enter the exact finished depth of my holes was to add my "Rapid Height" plus the depth I wanted my holes to be to get the finished depth of my holes. On rare occasions this seems to work but, most of the time it doesn't.
If I let SprutCAM calculate the depths of my holes based on my drawings it will either just set it up so my drill bit just kisses the surface of my work piece or it will calculate so that my drill bit will just kiss the bottom inside surface of my work piece.
Can one of you guys show me an "Screen Shot" example using a .125" drill bit to drill a .73" deep hole into a 3/4" thick piece of aluminum? My "Rapid Height" would be .10".
If possible, I'd like to see what Default numbers your version of SprutCAM comes up with and whatever numbers you would enter into your numbers fields to get the desired results.
Thanks in advance.
MetalShavings.