Using Macro Cycles

MACRO CYCLES

Macro cycles are cycles which are calculating various of coordinate values for points required in drilling cycles, milling circles, slots, facing or roughing rectangle shape pockets from solid material or round milling.

You may access most of macro cycles using speed buttons located on left side of program window (at least one Edit window must be open to see this panel) as well from Edit menu.

Before calling macro cycle insert cursor at position where You need to insert points. Of course You may first use macro cycle and then return and add necessary blocks.

When You call macro cycle the edit window will narrow and You will see Sketch explaining needed parameters for cycle and input fields. If reference points are U,V You may omit them program will use last position for this reference. If You will not provide enough information a error message will be displayed. To navigate between fields use TAB and Shift-TAB key. If You need to use calculator press '=' as first character of input field this will call build in calculator. Result of evaluation will be inserted in field calculator was called from.

When You click OK or press ENTER Your points will be calculated and inserted as program blocks at last cursor position, If before calling cycle any text was selected will be replaced by first block inserting by cycle.