Air drill users

[Kyle Stapleton]

I can not get our air drills to dwell.
I check the box and add in my time but it just will not do it.
My guess is it is my PP, so I was wondering if anyone that can get theirs to dwell would be willing to send me your air drill PP.

Thanks,

[srwtlc]

Kyle, you'll have to edit your pp file to enable it. This is more suited to the standard pp (for spindle drilling) than it is to the Drill pp that you use for the air drills. That said, I didn't walk through a drill PP to see if and where it can be enabled. Check out the pp config guide and search for 'dwell' and you'll come across the pertinent information on it. You can look at a Mach 2-3 pp to see how it's implemented, but you need to make it SB language. I have it enabled for my Z axis.

[BrandanS]

I can not get our air drills to dwell.
I check the box and add in my time but it just will not do it.
My guess is it is my PP, so I was wondering if anyone that can get theirs to dwell would be willing to send me your air drill PP.

Thanks,

At the very least, you should be able to modify this in the .SBP code. Adding a PAUSE 1 (1 second) after you have actuated the Z-axis to your depth should suffice. I have 3 pairs running on 3 dual spindle machines here. I've never tried running them through the PP, however.
I position over the hole, fire the solenoid (using SO,x,1; where x is the output for the solenoid) actuate the Z-axis to the depth required and then (SO,x,0) to retract the Air Drill. I could look at your code if you'd like just to get going. If it's just about the PP, I don't think I would be much help.

Brandan

[Kyle Stapleton]

Scott got me fixed up.

Thanks,

[srwtlc]

For anyone that would like to implement the dwell feature in Aspire/VCP for drilling (with spindle or air drills), here's the two pieces of code that your PP file needs to have added.

This goes in the variable section...

var DWELL_TIME = [DWELL|A||1.2]

This goes in the output section...

+---------------------------------------------
+ Commands output for a dwell move
+---------------------------------------------

begin DWELL_MOVE

"PAUSE [DWELL]"