Brief description

·    Basic version: 3 axes plus spindle

► 6 additional axes plus 2nd spindle (option)

·    Digital current and speed control

Program entry

·    ISO, free or supported entry

·    IPP part programming

Position data

Nominal/actual value and distance to go for line segments and arcs in Cartesian coordinates, absolute dimensions, display and entry in mm or inches

Tool compensation

·    Tool radius in the working plane and tool length

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

·    Compensation of vertical milling head geometry

Tool tables

·    Tool table with up to 999 milling and turning tools

Tool management

The tool changer is controlled by the integrated PLC. The MillPlus IT assumes the entire tool management, including tool life monitoring, replacement tools and oversize tools.

Calculation of cutting data

The MillPlus calculates the optimum values for the feed rate and spindle speed for the selected tool and workpiece material

Constant contouring speed

·    Relative to the path of the tool center

·    Relative to the tool’s cutting edge

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)

·    Spline interpolation

·    Angular millinghead with vector programming

►The MillPlus IT features a special coordinate transformation cycle for controlling swivel heads and tilting tables. The MillPlus IT compensates the offsets of the tilting axes and the tool length.

Machining with rotary tables
Software option 1

► Programming of cylindrical contours as if in two axes

► Linear feed rate 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

·    Turning cycles: roughing, boring and transverse/longitudinal recessing, undercutting, tapping of longitudinal and taper threads, contour roughing with workpiece blank definition (with cutter width calculation)

·    Contourdirection calculation for contour machining cycles

·    Programming a rotary axis like a spindle

·    Constant cutting speed

·    Programmable tool orientation

·    Unbalance detection and control

·    NC-controlled boring head (with contour program and tool cutter width recalculation)

Free contour programming

Contour programming with graphic support for workpiece drawings not dimensioned for NC (IPC) for milling and turning

·    Drilling/centering, peck-drilling, reaming, back boring, conventional and rigid tapping, boring, milling of slots, rectangular and circular pockets, clearing level surfaces, hole patterns (circular, linear and grids), thread cutting

·    Machining point pattern cycles

·    Contour pocket (contour-parallel) with islands

·    tan α, arc sin, arc cos, arc tan, aⁿ, eⁿ, In, log, absolute value of a number, constant π, negation, truncation of digits before or after the decimal point

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

·    Program interruption, contour departure and reapproach

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

·    Multiple pallet datum's (99) in their own table 

·    Hydraulic clamp management with tables

Screen languages

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

Windows applications

(Option)

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·      Standard Windows applications (option)

·      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