Chip Break was added to the Cycle Type option for the Mill and Lathe Drill operations. This cycle is used to break the drill chips. On most NC machines it is a G73 code.
For the standard installed posts (Mpost), the following lines were added. If you are using a custom post, you must add these lines to use the Chip Break cycle.
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Added to post |
code output |
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ChipBreak |
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G73 X[h] Y[v] Z[d] Q[vbite] R[vclear] F[frate] |
G73 X1. Y1. Z-.5 Q.2 R.1 F5. |
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End Cancel |
X2. Y3. |
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X3. Y4. |
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G80 |
For SPost, the following instruction is added to the APT-CL output.
CYCLE/BRKCHP,FEDTO,0.054127,IPM,0.733400,DWELL,0.000000,INCR,0.125000,$
RAPTO,0.100000,RTRCTO,1.000000,PULBAC,98