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There is a Fast Drill cycle included with Router-CIM. Not all machines support this feature, but most Fanuc controlled machines will. The basic idea is to remove the dwell caused by switching from rapid to a programmed feedrate, and back to rapid again on each hole. This causes a small dwell on each change from G0 to G1. Instead the code will keep the machine in G1 mode and change the feedrate from the speed programmed for the drill to the fastest feedrate available for the machine on the moves where there would normally be a rapid traverse move. This causes the machine to move much faster from hole to hole, by avoiding the dwell.
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