Format Cycle Drill

This command can be added by right-clicking on the “Drilling Cycle” heading inside “Commands” tab.

It is used to print drilling cycles (G81 etc) in the NC program in the appropriate format.

In an APT/CL file, this drilling cycle usually starts with statements like “CYCLE/DRILL” and ends with the statement CYCLE/OFF.

The CYCLE/DRILL statement also contains the parameters of the drilling cycle. Drilling positions (points) are also given in subsequent GOTO lines.

Drilling cycle lines, expressed by “CYCLE/DRILL” lines in the APT/CL file, first activate Event Cycle Start. and Event Cycle. in MANUSpost.

“ActionCycleMotion” is included as standard in “Event Cycle”. “ActionCycleMotion” runs “Format Cycle Drill”, if the drilling cycle type detected is in the standard drilling cycle type (G81).

IMPORTANT NOTE: At the start of each drilling cycle (ie in the CYCLE/DRILL statement in APT/CL), Event Cycle Start. will run automatically at first for once. Later, Event Cycle. becomes active for all drilling points in the same drilling cycle (i.e. all GOTO lines coming after CYCLE/DRILL and up to CYCLE/OFF).