Development of the integration of postprocessor for five-axis machine tools

Author

She, Chen-Hua ; Lin, Che-Hsien ; Yang, Tsung-Hua

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. & Comput. Aided Eng., Nat. Formosa Univ., Yunlin, Taiwan

fYear

2012

fDate

11-14 July 2012

Firstpage

638

Lastpage

643

Abstract

A postprocessor capable of converting the cutter location data to machine control data is the important interface between the NC programming design and the manufacture. Owing to the fact that multi-axis NC data can only be applied to the specified machine tool configuration and various combinations may be synthesized to multi-axis machine tool configuration, the portability of the NC data is inevitably reduced. This paper aims to integrate the postprocessors for various five-axis machine tools and develops the windows interface converting various multi-axis NC data into different NC code of machine tool directly. The developed module can make the scheduling of the factory more efficiently, increase the productivity of the machine tools and thus play the important role of the automation for multi-axis machining.

Keywords

control engineering computing; cutting tools; machine control; machine tools; machining; numerical control; production engineering computing; NC programming design; cutter location data; factory scheduling; five-axis machine tool configuration; machine control data; machine tool productivity; multiaxis machining; postprocessor development; windows interface; Computer numerical control; Joints; Kinematics; Machine tools; Machining; Mathematical model; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2012 IEEE/ASME International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kachsiung

ISSN

2159-6247

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2575-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AIM.2012.6265932

Filename

6265932