G73 – High Speed Peck Drilling

This command is Canned Cycle used for high speed peck drilling.

Syntax & Parameters

• G73 followed by axis, R, Q, K & F values.

• X, Y, Z, A, B Value - specifies the axis you wish to move following the distance to move. The distance value will be the current machine units in use.

• R Value - This is the retract position in the Z axis. This value must be specified.

• Q Value - The Q value is peck (incremental) value. A positive non zero Q value must be specified.

• K Value - This is number of time the cycle needs to be repeated.

• F Value - The F value defines the federate at which the axis will move at.

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Example program

N10 G99 G73 X10 Y10 Z-8 R2 Q1 F100
N20 X20
N30 X30

• The first line moves the X & Y axis to 10mm position with retract plane set to 2mm, drilling to Z -8mm, peck of 1mm at 100 mm/minute feedrate and starts drilling.

• The second line moves X axis to 20mm position and drill a hole as per the same values.

• The third line moves X axis to 30mm position and drill a hole as per the same values.