Estlcam 12 Alpha

[Michael_Melancon (Mike M)]

@Jonathjon

Hopefully @christian-knuell has an answer about the drill function though. I know someone made another post about it as well

That was me. I have the same issue with pecking…

Mike's MP3DP v5 build

did you have to do anything special for Peck settings for drilling? I have mine defined as [image] Then I use just a regular drill function [image] When I run the preview, it just goes straight down… I guess I need to check the Gcode…maybe it’s a preview problem?? Edit: Nope… (No. 1 Drill machining: Drill 1) G00 X216.2598 Y57.2452 Z5.0000 G00 Z0.5000 G01 Z-5.3000 F120 S12000 G00 Z5.0000 That’s the whole drill segment…just straight down to 5.3mm in one go

oh…and also I see now

Possible bug in 12

I was using a 4mm endmill in aluminium and the cutting tool was used for the trochoidal for the main cutting, but also the same tool used for drilling. When it came to the drilling section the set depth of 0.5mm was ignored and did a full depth cut of 7mm, stalling my machine. I had to re-program the CAM file to add another tool (same tool, different settings) just for drilling and set the depth to 0.5mm and ignored the tool change when it came up during the machining. I was lucky that no dam…