HEIDENHAIN iTNC 530 HSCI - Modeling Tool Carriers

1480 HEIDENHAIN Technical Manual iTNC 530 HSCI
Tools The following programs are involved in the creation of tool-carrier kinematics:
 KinematicsDesign
KinematicsDesign is a program for interactive creation of control kinematics,
fixture templates, completed fixtures and tool carrier kinematics. The
program is available for download from the HEIDENHAIN homepage, and is
available on the iTNC 530 control.
 Fixture Wizard
With the FixtureWizard, you use the fixture templates and the templates for
the tool carrier kinematics to generate executable kinematics files for the
control. These kinematics files can be used for DCM collision monitoring of
the control. The program is available for PCs as a part of KinematicsDesign.
It is also available on the control.
Modeling tool
carriers
KinematicsDesign helps you to model the tool carriers. You can define readily
usable tool carriers (file extension *.cfx), or you can create variable tool-carrier
templates (file extension *.cft).
For tool-carrier templates (*.cft) you define the shape of the tool carrier by
using variables for different dimensions of the tool-carrier objects (CMOs). The
tool carriers are designed in the same way as the machine kinematics: CMOs,
translations and transformations are used. Input parameters permit variable
design of the tool-carrier templates, and enable you to help the end user in the
final definition of the tool carrier.
The *.cft files for tool-carrier templates are in a new table format in ASCII. The
tables are an extension of the familiar columns of the kinematics tables *.tab
of the machine kinematics, which were specially adapted for the modeling of
fixtures and tool carriers. The tables can be opened with Microsoft Excel if the
semicolon is selected as separator.
When saving tool-carrier kinematics to the TNC:\system\Toolkinematics
directory, only give them names differing from the HEIDENHAIN templates,
since the HEIDENHAIN templates will be overwritten during a software
update. Tool carriers or tool-carrier templates that were created or changed by
you should be saved in a separate directory or under their own names, in order
to avoid losing data during a software update.