Drilling and boring?
Posted: Sat 11 Dec , 2021 21:47 pm
Can anyone give me any guidance as to how to use QT2DD to generate Gcode for drilling and boring holes?
What I have in mind is centre drilling the work, then progressively enlarging the hole with twist drills and finally boring to finished size. The bore might need to be tapered or stepped rather than parallel.
I've started off by trying to do something simple ie drilling a 10mm dia hole in the end of the work. There is a 10mm diameter drill in the tool list. I've attached the zipped up .LCM file which was created for the job by importing a .DWG file into QT2DD.
The first thing that goes wrong is that the 3D model looks nothing like the drawing. If I ignore that and proceed to create Gcode I just end up with a load of error messages.
Any help gratefully received.
Max.
What I have in mind is centre drilling the work, then progressively enlarging the hole with twist drills and finally boring to finished size. The bore might need to be tapered or stepped rather than parallel.
I've started off by trying to do something simple ie drilling a 10mm dia hole in the end of the work. There is a 10mm diameter drill in the tool list. I've attached the zipped up .LCM file which was created for the job by importing a .DWG file into QT2DD.
The first thing that goes wrong is that the 3D model looks nothing like the drawing. If I ignore that and proceed to create Gcode I just end up with a load of error messages.
Any help gratefully received.
Max.