HEIDENHAIN TNC 640 (34059x-05) - Manual (Page 38)

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TNC 640 | User's Manual
HEIDENHAIN Conversational Programming | 1/2015
12 Programming: Multiple Axis Machining.................................................................................... 435
12.1 Functions for multiple axis machining............................................................................................. 436
12.2 The PLANE Function: Tilting the working plane (Software Option 8)........................................... 437
Introduction........................................................................................................................................... 437
Overview............................................................................................................................................... 438
Defining the PLANE function................................................................................................................439
Position display......................................................................................................................................439
Resetting the PLANE function.............................................................................................................. 440
Defining the working plane with the spatial angle: PLANE SPATIAL....................................................441
Defining the working plane with the projection angle: PLANE PROJECTED....................................... 443
Defining the working plane with the Euler angle: PLANE EULER........................................................444
Defining the working plane with two vectors: PLANE VECTOR.......................................................... 446
Defining the working plane via three points: PLANE POINTS..............................................................448
Defining the working plane via a single incremental spatial angle: PLANE SPATIAL............................450
Tilting the working plane through axis angle: PLANE AXIAL (FCL 3 function)......................................451
Specifying the positioning behavior of the PLANE function.................................................................453
Tilt the working plane without rotary axes...........................................................................................458
12.3 Inclined-tool machining in a tilted plane (Option #9)..................................................................... 459
Function................................................................................................................................................. 459
Inclined-tool machining via incremental traverse of a rotary axis......................................................... 459
Inclined-tool machining via normal vectors........................................................................................... 460
12.4 Miscellaneous functions for rotary axes.......................................................................................... 461
Feed rate in mm/min on rotary axes A, B, C: M116 (Option #8).......................................................... 461
Shortest-path traverse of rotary axes: M126........................................................................................462
Reducing display of a rotary axis to a value less than 360°: M94........................................................463
Maintaining the position of the tool tip when positioning with tilted axes (TCPM): M128
(Option #9)............................................................................................................................................. 464
Selecting tilting axes: M138................................................................................................................. 467
Compensating the machine’s kinematics configuration for ACTUAL/NOMINAL positions at end of block:
M144 (Option #9).................................................................................................................................. 468