Ok, so I have this flat plate with holes in it......LOTS of holes....
I've gotten the alignment right, (Z+ Vector)
I've done 6 holes with the Purple icon for "Auto Holes" and the program will run those.
Then I did 15 more holes by clicking on them in the CAD (I put in a "Clear Plane" just ahead of the CAD identified holes, of .5).
When I "Execute" the program, ...it will run through the first six holes, but when it should move to Hole 7 (the first CAD identified hole), it stops, gives me a "out of ......." message, and sits there.
I realize that I haven't "physically" taken hits on the CAD identified holes yet, and I figure that's why it won't go do them.
What am I missing here? I don't want to have to do cartesian triplets on all 200 holes, I just want to click on the various holes on the CAD model, and tell the machine to go do them.
Since we spent only an hour or two in class on the topic of CAD programming, I'm a bit at a loss.
What is the trick to getting your onscreen CAD hits to run in a program?
-Soupy1957
I've gotten the alignment right, (Z+ Vector)
I've done 6 holes with the Purple icon for "Auto Holes" and the program will run those.
Then I did 15 more holes by clicking on them in the CAD (I put in a "Clear Plane" just ahead of the CAD identified holes, of .5).
When I "Execute" the program, ...it will run through the first six holes, but when it should move to Hole 7 (the first CAD identified hole), it stops, gives me a "out of ......." message, and sits there.
I realize that I haven't "physically" taken hits on the CAD identified holes yet, and I figure that's why it won't go do them.
What am I missing here? I don't want to have to do cartesian triplets on all 200 holes, I just want to click on the various holes on the CAD model, and tell the machine to go do them.
Since we spent only an hour or two in class on the topic of CAD programming, I'm a bit at a loss.
What is the trick to getting your onscreen CAD hits to run in a program?
-Soupy1957

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