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      <div class="title_topic5" id="xps10_pagetitle">Simulated Cycles</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">For machines that do not have canned cycles, you can do the following to output your drilling cycles with linear and rapid moves.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Under Program and Tool Path &rarr; Custom Command &rarr; Import select the custom command pb_cmd_simulated_cycles.tcl and click OK.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Under Program and Tool Path &rarr; Program &rarr; Tool Path &rarr; Canned Cycles &rarr; Common Parameters, for each cycle you want to simulate, select the customize button.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Under Program and Tool Path &rarr; Program &rarr; Tool Path &rarr; Canned Cycles for each cycle you want to simulate, select the appropriate marker. &nbsp;</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Remove all the words in the event dialog.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">On the word selection pull down under command, select the cycle that matches the event. &nbsp;It is in the form PB_CMD_sim_cycle_drill_move.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Click on Add Word and drag the custom command to the dialog.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">The custom command PB_CMD_initialize_spindle_axis may be modified if your cycle spindle axis is not along the positive Z axis.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">The system generates all simulated cycles along the spindle axis. For tilting head four and five axis machines, the system performs the cycles along the tool axis.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">All motion is output through the PB_CMD_linear_move. &nbsp;</p>
      <p class="para_topic">If you want to customize the simulated cycles you may edit any of the custom commands in the custom command pb_cmd_simulated_cycles.tcl.</p>
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