Is there anything I can do to improve the efficiency of my drilling especially on my blum tandems? It drills some of the holes on all the parts and then has to come back and do the rest. I waste a lot of time jogging around the table. This is on my shopbot with the link.
Thank you
Lorin
inefficient drilling
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Re: inefficient drilling
I assume you have changed your tandem drawer slide hole patterns to drill only where you are going to fasten the slide. We use three system screws to fasten tandem slides.
This could save you a lot of time on your tandem slides anyway.-
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Re: inefficient drilling
right. I do use 4 screws per slide but drill 10 holes I think.
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Re: inefficient drilling
Lorin...
#1) Edit your blum pattern to only the holes that you use. From 10 to 4 should be a good time saving.
#2) I dont think that you can change the order that holes are drilled. The algorithm only takes into account the distance to the closest hole. Not the extra distance traveled to return and do the others in a "set"
#1) Edit your blum pattern to only the holes that you use. From 10 to 4 should be a good time saving.
#2) I dont think that you can change the order that holes are drilled. The algorithm only takes into account the distance to the closest hole. Not the extra distance traveled to return and do the others in a "set"
Gary Campbell
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