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Showing 1 – 10 of 300 resultsCoordinate systems tell a CNC machine where to position the cutting tool during the program’s execution for any purpose that requires the cutting tool to move.
A little ingenuity goes a long way toward improving machine utilization.
Certain “hybrid” machines combine some form of additive manufacturing with CNC subtractive manufacturing. Columnist Mike Lynch, President of CNC Concepts Inc., explores three types of these machines here.
Incremental mode can be more advantageous when programming sculptured surfaces or for certain hole-machining canned cycle applications.
FANUC’s version of parametric programming, Custom Macro, enables you to create your own canned cycles tailored to whatever the application requires.
Misapplication of these important CNC features will result in wasted time, wasted or duplicated effort and/or wasted material.
These oddities in the way a CNC naturally behaves can help explain some rather unusual situations that may occur during machining.
You cannot begin to take advantage of an available feature if you do not know it exists. Conversely, you will not know how to avoid CNC features that may be detrimental to your process.
Safety commands help safeguard CNC applications from common programming or operation errors.
The act of qualifying CNC programs is largely related to eliminating variations, which can be a daunting task when you consider how many things can change from one time a job is run to the next.
