ProNest Drill

For users operating plasma or oxyfuel cutting machines that incorporate drilling, tapping and other spindle operation capability, the ProNest Drill Interface provides advanced support. Enhanced functionality includes specialized sorting of the part spindle operations as well as tool change and cycle parameter support, pre‐drilling of pierce locations allowing users to automatically add drilled holes at the pierce locations of all cut profiles, and auto‐select of tool tolerance automatically used by the system to match up the drills and taps found in the nest with the tools in the integrated customizable tooling library. Additionally, the depth of operations such as counterboring and countersinking can be controlled from the CAD file through the use of Blocks and CAD colors can be used to automatically convert round holes found on the turret layer of the nest into fine or course taps, pre‐drills for taps are specified automatically in the tooling library. Furthermore, multi‐step operations utilizing multiple tools at variable depths can be defined in the tooling library and called out in a part CAD file by simply adding named “Block” at the desired location and a flexible parameter file is used to automatically specify the spindle speed, feedrate and other cycle parameters for each tool operation, for every material type and thickness.

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