HEIDENHAIN TNC 640 (34059x-02) User Manual
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TNC 640 | User's Manual
HEIDENHAIN Conversational Programming | 5/2013
12 Programming: Multiple Axis Machining...................................................................................... 409
12.1 Functions for multiple axis machining.............................................................................................. 410
12.2 The PLANE Function: Tilting the Working Plane (Software Option 1)............................................411
Introduction.............................................................................................................................................411
Defining the PLANE function.................................................................................................................413
Position display.......................................................................................................................................413
Resetting the PLANE function............................................................................................................... 414
Defining the working plane with the spatial angle: PLANE SPATIAL.................................................... 415
Defining the working plane with the projection angle: PLANE PROJECTED........................................ 417
Defining the working plane with the Euler angle: PLANE EULER.........................................................418
Defining the working plane with two vectors: PLANE VECTOR........................................................... 420
Defining the working plane via three points: PLANE POINTS...............................................................422
Defining the working plane via a single incremental spatial angle: PLANE SPATIAL.............................424
Tilting the working plane through axis angle: PLANE AXIAL (FCL 3 function)...................................... 425
Specifying the positioning behavior of the PLANE function.................................................................. 427
12.3 Inclined-tool machining in a tilted machining plane (software option 2).......................................432
Function.................................................................................................................................................. 432
Inclined-tool machining via incremental traverse of a rotary axis.......................................................... 432
Inclined-tool machining via normal vectors............................................................................................ 433
12.4 Miscellaneous functions for rotary axes........................................................................................... 434
Feed rate in mm/min on rotary axes A, B, C: M116 (software option 1)............................................... 434
Shortest-path traverse of rotary axes: M126.........................................................................................435
Reducing display of a rotary axis to a value less than 360°: M94.........................................................436
2).............................................................................................................................................................437
Selecting tilting axes: M138...................................................................................................................440
Compensating the machine’s kinematics configuration for ACTUAL/NOMINAL positions at end of block:
M144 (software option 2)...................................................................................................................... 441
12.5 FUNCTION TCPM (software option 2)............................................................................................... 442
Function.................................................................................................................................................. 442
Defining the TCPM FUNCTION............................................................................................................. 442
Mode of action of the programmed feed rate...................................................................................... 443
Interpretation of the programmed rotary axis coordinates....................................................................443
Type of interpolation between the starting and end position................................................................ 445
Resetting the TCPM FUNCTION........................................................................................................... 446