XB and drilling cycles
XB and its variants XBO, XBR and XBRB are the Xilog Plus boring macros: they drill a hole at a point with a given diameter and depth. The converter refuses them.
Syntax
XB X<mm> Y<mm> Z<mm> D<mm> [T<n>] ...UnsupportedRefused. No file is produced.
Parameters
X | X coordinate of the end point in millimetres | required |
Y | Y coordinate of the end point in millimetres | required |
Z | Z depth in millimetres | required |
D | Bore diameter in millimetres | required |
T | Tool number | optional |
How it is written to PGM
No encoding exists. Nothing in the reference program is a drilling cycle, and a boring macro expands into machine behaviour that cannot be inferred from a contour file. Rather than write bytes that might drive a spindle into a panel, the converter refuses the file and lists the line numbers.
Example
XB X100 Y50 Z12 D8 T5Notes
- The same treatment applies to subprograms, parametric expressions and any other command word the parser does not recognise.
- Splitting a program so that the contour and the drilling live in separate files lets the contour convert.
- If you have an XXL with drilling and the PGM that the original compiler produced from it, that pair is what would make support possible.
Messages this command can produce
- Command not supportedUnsupported