Hi Charlie;

I was trying to drill some  holes for a game board. I just need the holes to locate some pegs, they screw in so i need the center located. I can't seem to find a operation that will do that.Ive used medial carve with a offset to find the center of hole, but it's not really a straight forward process. I saw in one of the topics a few month ago where you were working on a drilling operation. Is there an easy way I'm just not seeing.

Just a question about cutting out a project, using 1/4 EM and 2D profile milling, why does that require a step-over ?

Thanks Joe

Hi Joe,

The Hole Drilling operation will work for peck-drilling holes using a conventional drill bit. The next best thing is the 2D Trochoidal Milling operation, which will generate a spiral cutpath inside of each circular contour at each cutdepth down to the maximum cutting depth.

The 2D Profile Milling operation will require a cut stepover if the Cut Width parameter is non-zero, because a non-zero cut width indicates that there are going to at least be two cutpaths that are Cut Width apart from eachother, and there needs to be a cut stepover to indicate what increment to stepover at to get from the inner-most cutpath to the outer-most cutpath over the specified cut width distance. Hopefully that makes sense.

Cheers! :]

 - Charlie