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Setting a check for drill ops can be a long line and apparently may not always catch all instances if you don't set it right, so I got this solution from Don Boire in the post team to set up a global variable called “drilling” and use that instead. He also suggested using this method in other places like defining 5 axis motion, etc.

Below are his instructions.

The handy thing about opcode$ is capturing a group of operations rather than having to include many different tool_op$ values in your if statement. To handle that with tool_op$, see roughing, finishing, and drilling in our 2017 Siemens 3x Mill post. (Download it form the Tech Exchange here: Siemens 3x Mill Post_2017.zip)

The technique works like this:

Define a variable and a list of tool_op$ codes to include:

#Define operations to include in the category Drilling
drilling =
      (
      tool_op$ = 2   |  # Drill
      tool_op$ = 28  |  # 5-axis drilling
      tool_op$ = 37  |  # Non-associative drilling
      tool_op$ = 104 |  # Solid drill control operation
      tool_op$ = 136 |  # FBM drill control operation
      tool_op$ = 306    # Block drill
      )

Then just use drilling as your condition:

if not(drilling) & cycle832_active = no$, pcycle832  # Output CYCLE832