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G81, G82, and G80: Drilling canned cycle

G81, G82, and G80: Drilling canned cycle - G-Code Tutorial

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G81, G82, and G80: Drilling canned cycle

- In this movie, we're going to be learning about drilling canned cycles. Now the drilling canned cycles we're going to be talking about are the G81 and then G82 canned cycles. Now, canned cycles in general allow you to drill a series of holes all with the same settings. Now, you could also do drilling with long hand notation using G0s and G1 commands, however the canned cycles make it a whole lot easier to deal with that operation and it makes it all on a one line of code so you can adjust any of those settings all in that one line, and then you just can code the locations of the individual holes. Now you can change, again, all of those settings all in that one line, and if you want to add or remove holes to the G-code, all you need to do is add in those new locations or remove them prior to getting to that G80. Now the G80, is what's going to cancel your canned cycle. That works with all canned cycles, not just the G81, G82. Any canned cycles pretty much going to end with a G80…

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