Brief description

·    Basic version: 3 NC-axes plus spindle

      4 th NC axis plus auxiliary axis, or

      8 additional NC axes or 7 additional NC axes plus 2nd spindle

·    Digital current and speed control

Programming

·    DIN / ISO free or supported program entry

·    Contour programming ICP

·    Part programming IPP

Position data

·    Nominal positions for straight lines and circular arcs in Cartesian or polar coordinates

·    Dimensions absolute or incremental

·    Display and entry in mm or inches

Tool compensation

·    Tool radius in the working plane and tool length

·    Radius-compensated contour-control look ahead for up to 400 blocks

·    Three-dimensional tool radius compensation for changing tool data without having to recalculate an existing program

Tool tables

·    Tool table with 999 tools

·    Table for angular toolheads

Tool management

·    Tool management including tool life monitoring, replacement tools and oversized tools with additional corrections per tool

Cutting data tables

·    Calculation of the optimal value of spindle speed and feed rates from the selected materials and tools

Constant contouring speed

·    Relative to the path of the tool center

·    Relative to the tool’s cutting edge

Parallel operation

·    Creating programs with graphic support while another program is being run

3-D machining

·    Motion control with minimum jerk

·    3-D tool compensation through surface normal vectors

·    The offset of the tilting axes are compensated so that the tool point location remains unchanged with respect to the contour (TCPM = Tool Center Point Management)

·    Keeping the tool normal to the contour

·    Spline interpolation

·    Coordinate transformation for controlling swivel heads and tilting tables. The offsets of the tilting axes and tool lengths are compensated

·    Tool point location is calculated independent of the working plane by the kinematic model

·    Workpiece zero point follows the movement of rotation table (G154)

·    Switching C-axis in head or table

Machining with rotary tables

Software option 1

► Programming of cylindrical contours as if in two axes

► Feed rate in mm/min

Contour  elements

·    Line segment

·    Chamfer

·    Circular arc

·    Circle center

·    Circle radius

·    Tangentially connecting circular arc

·    Corner rounding

Contour approach and departure

·    Via straight line: tangential or perpendicular

·    Via circular arc

·    Via helices

Free contour programming

·    Contour programming with graphical support for workpieces that are not dimensioned for NC (ICP)

Program jumps

·    Subprograms

·    Program section repeats

·    Conditional jumps

·    Calling a program via a path

Turning application

·    Switching between milling and turning in a program

·    Programming a rotary axis like a spindle

·    Constant cutting speed

·    Feed rate in mm/rev

·    Programmable tool orientation

·    Unbalance detection and monitoring

·    Measuring of grooving and turning tools with laser

·    Facing head function, controlled via NC-axes (U-head)

Fixed cycles

·    Drilling/centering, peck-drilling, reaming, back boring, conventional and rigid tapping, boring

·    Roughing and finishing of slot milling, rectangular and circular pockets

·    Clearing level surfaces

·    Circular, linear and matrix point patterns

·    Contour pocket (contour-parallel) with islands

·    Contour train

·    OEM cycles can also be integrated

Turning- fixed cycles

·    Clearance and roughing axial / radial,

·    Grooving axial / radial universal

·    Undercut (DIN76, DIN509E and DIN509F)

·    Threadcutting axial and taper

Coordinate transformations

·    Datum shift, rotation, mirror image

·    Scaling factor (axis-specific)

► Tilting the working plane

E-parameters

Programming with variables

·    Mathematical functions: =, +, –, *,  / ,√, aⁿ, eⁿ

·    Logical comparisons: (=, ≠,  >, >=, <, <=)

·    Parentheses

·    Sin, cos, tan, arcus sin, arcus cos, arcus tan,  In, log, absolute value, constant π, negation, truncation of digits before or after the decimal point

Programming aids

·    Graphical support during programming: ISO, ICP and IPP

·    Further information through Info key

·    Technology tables: (for recommended feed rate and spindle speed) 

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·    On-line help for error messages

·    Programming manual via PDF-file

EASYoperate

Manual operation

·    Setup and datum setting

·    Simple entry and execution of cycles with actual-position capture (teach-in / playback)

·    Graphic support for cycle programming

·    Formular input

Verification graphics

Display modes

Graphic simulation before a program run:

·    Plan view (2D)

·    Projection in 3 planes (2,5D)

·    3-D view

·    Detail enlargement and rotation

Programming graphics

·    The contour of the entered NC blocks is drawn on screen while they are being entered (2-D pencil-trace graphics)

Program run graphics

·    Graphic simulation synchronous to machining

Machining time

·    Display of the current machining time

Returning to the contour

·    Mid-program startup in any block in the program, returning the tool to the calculated nominal position to continue machining

·    Program interruption, contour departure, tool inspection and if required changing  and reapproach

Datum table

·    Datum table with 99 points

Pallet management

·    For simple management of pallets, workpieces and tool for automatic machining of production jobs under control of the PLC

Touch probe cycles

·    Compensation of workpiece misalignment, manual or automatic

·    Datum setting, manual or automatic

·    Workpiece measurement, automatic

·    Tool measuring

Machine measuring cycles

·    Determine rotation table center and height

·    Determine swivel head and swivel table center

·    Temperature compensation with laser

·    Correct table rotation center

Points

·    Programming with points from the point memory (256)

Screen languages

·    German, Danish, Spanish, French, English, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Czech, Finnish

Windows applications

(Option)

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·      Standard Windows applications

·      DNC Windows applications (over Windows COM)

Machining with rotary tables 

► Programming of cylindrical contours as if in two axes

► Feed rate in mm/min

Coordinate transformations

► Tilting the working plane

Interpolation

► Circle in 3 axes with tilted working plane