The German vertical machining centre manufacturer Roders has developed version 3.0 of its control software, said to reduce high speed cutting cycles on its machines by up to 20 percent, says Hurco Europe. Machining of high precision 3D moulds and dies is the principal application. Normally, the program for a prismatic machining cycle is downloaded from the customer's CAD/CAM system to the machine control in ISO format containing a series of Cartesian co ordinates defining the tool path that the machine is to follow. The CNC system tries to make the machine move as precisely as possible. Complications can arise in the interpolation between any two defined points, as there is no information about the trajectory between them in the programme, so the CNC has to try to predict the tool path.
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