Bolt Hole Pattern?

I am trying to write a few bolt hole pattern programs. Lets say for
example, I wanted to write a program to drill 40 equally spaced
holes. Each point would be (in this example) .487 inch from the
center point. How would I go about writing this program? (right now
I use a dyna controller on an older machine that all I do is type in
the # of holes, and the .487 inch, and it figures out the bolt hole
pattern itself...but my new machine doesnt. Is there a function of
Solidworks where I can basically type in that 487 (or the radius) and
the # of repititions and it will create this file for me in NC format
or txt or whatever? If you have any questions or need me to clarify
or send photos/drawings of what I mean, please email me at

Thank you in advance

 

You could do this with a spreadsheet program. Post a sample for your G-
code or whatever and I could put something together for you.

Ken

 

Im confused as to what you mean here about a spreadsheet program and
what you want me to post. Let me explain a bit further as what I have
now, and what I would need:
I am using a Benchman 4000 with a 4 tool Automatic Tool Changer from
Intelitek (Light MAchines Corp) that I am controlling from an ISA card
in my computer (the card is a Baldor NextMove PC Controller) it is
an 8 axis PC based motion controller.
The program I am using to send the information is a Benchman 4000
program (I think thats what its called) and uses NC code programs with
standard G and M codes.
Right now the machine that I am running these bolt hole patterns in is
a DynaMite Mill. It already has something in the control to make the
bolt hole pattern. Below is the program that I send to the dyna
machine, and it basically creates that bolt hole pattern. What I
would need to figure out how to do, is how to write the NC program to
do the same thing.
000 START INS 49
001 FR XY =30.0
002 FR Z =7.0
003 GOfY 2.6650
004 GOfX 2.8970
005 GOfZ 2.0500
006 SETUP >zcxyu
007 SPINDLE ON
008 BOLT PECK=00
009 ZH= 0.0000
010 ZD= 0.1400
011 XC= 0.0000
012 YC= 0.0000
013 a1= 10.000
014 n= 36
015 r= 0.4775
016 SPINDLE OFF
017 END NEWPART
What the above program does is in lines 3,4 and 5 it sets the 0 point
(in the machine I have I wouldnt really need to do that as it has the
0 point in there already), in line 10 it sets the z depth, in line 13
it takes 360/# of holes so what I THINK that is doing, is dividing it
into the amount of degrees between each hole but Im not sure. In like
14 its the amount of holes (or the amount of times its repeating line
13). Line 15 is the radius (1/2 The inside diameter of the circle +
1/2 the width of the piece Im drilling into). Thats it.
Thank you in advance
Scott

 

The specs for the Benchman 4000 (Bman4000.pdf) are missing
at http://www.lightmachines.com/productcenter/benchman4000.html
(PLEASE tell them !!!) but it seems to claim that it comes with a
Windows interface of some sort.
"Intuitive Windows-based control"
So why the Baldor NextMove PC Controller? Is this the
NextMove ESB-2? Or is that the "Intuitive Windows-based control"?
http://www.baldor.com/products/motion_control.asp
http://www.baldor.com/products/motioncontrol/nmesb2.asp

"Compatible with MintNC and HPGL"
By HPGL they perhaps mean EIA RS-274-D/X (AKA "Gerber")
(a subset of EIA RS-274-D which is "standard G-code")?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerber_File
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPGL

http://www.baldor.com/pdf/literature/BR1202-BMint.pdf
Do you have MintNC & it's documentation?
Docs on how to use the "HPGL" or "standard G-code"?