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Software requirements
Software for turning and machining centres
Effective software will do the following:
• Offer simple to use calibration routines.
• Update a tool offset.
• Generate an alarm if a broken tool is found
or set a ag for corrective action.
• Update work co-ordinate systems for
positioning.
• Report measured sizes and update
tool offsets for automatic tool offset
compensations.
• Print data in the form of an inspection report
to an external PC/printer.
• Set tolerances on features.
Verify your software
1. Does your software have suitable calibration
routines which compensate for stylus
on-centre errors? If not, you must set the
probe stylus on-centre mechanically.
NOTE: For machining centre applications,
when using probe styli which are not
on spindle centre, spindle orientation
repeatability is important to avoid probe
measurement errors.
2. Does your software compensate for probe
triggering characteristics in all measuring
directions?
3. Does the software automatically adjust the
program co-ordinate system to the relevant
set-up feature on the component, for job
set-up purposes?
NOTE: Probe cycles and features are machine
software dependent. Software for probing
routines is available from Renishaw.
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