CNC MACHINING CENTRE PROGRAMMING, SETUP & OPERATION
CNC Course

2013. CD course or Hardcover, 3rd supplemented edition...$85.
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OVERVIEW

CNC machining centres are the most popular types of CNC machine tools used today. Most companies that have any CNC machines have at least one machining centre. Unfortunately, companies are finding it more and more difficult to find and hire qualified CNC people. In this CNC Course, we will explore the CNC Machining Centre Programming, Setup & Operation, showing you much of what is involved with using CNC Machining Centres, these sophisticated machine tools. Our primary goal will be to teach you about CNC programming and Machining centre's setup. For readers who will be working directly with CNC machine tools, we will show you the basics of each major CNC function. Additionally, we will make suggestions as to how you can learn more about each CNC function as it applies to your particular CNC machine/s. At the completion of this presentation, you should have a good understanding of CNC Machining Centre Programming, Setup & Operation.

FEATURES

The material presented in this course can be applied to just about any CNC Machining centre. And specific techniques will be shown for the most popular CNC controls in the industry.
This CNC Course brings wealth of information and instruction for programming particular CNC controls like Fanuc, Haas, Mazak, Fadal, Siemens, Heidenhein...as well as direct explanation for setup procedures on machines with those CNC controls. This is what makes this course great and so popular. It is fully indexed (via Table of Contents) to help the user quickly locate topics of interest.

CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Basic design of the CNC bench-top milling, CNC control and
functions
2. Cartesian Coordinate system, axis on the CNC Mill
3. 0-point and reference point
4. Basic operation of the CNC Mill
5. Turn on the machine and the CNC control
6. Establish the tool offset and program 0-point
7. Tool function, Tooling
8. Understanding Feeds and speeds calculation
9. Preparatory functions G-code system, Misc. M- function
10. Fanuc compatible programming
11. CNC milling and drilling programming, Contour programming,
chamfer and radius
12. Setup CNC Machining centers
13. Program examples with setting instructions
14. Operations

This course will teach you:

- Basics of CNC
- CNC machine components and configuration
- Programable functions and accessories
- Directions of motion (axes) and fundamental geometrical principles
- Home position (Reference point) for each axis
- Flow of the CNC process
- Which coordinate systems we have to know
- Machine coordinate system
- Setting m/c coordinate system
- Direction of motion (axes)
- Workpiece coordinate system
- Definition of workpiece position
- Motion types
- G - codes (preparatory function)
- M - codes (miscellaneous function)
- Absolute command (G90)
- Incremental command (G91)
- Understanding of interpolation
- Rapid motion
- Feed rate (F function)
- Circular interpolation - circular motion (G02 and G03)
- Program zero, workpiece zero – positions of zero points
- Metric/Imperial dimensions G70, G71, G700, G710
TOOL OFFSETS
- What are offsets
- Why we need offsets
- How to organize offsets
- Types of compensation
- Tool length compensation - G43 (machining centres)
- How to consider tool length compensation
- How to measure tools
- Cutter radius compensation G40-G42 (machining centres)
- Reasons for cutter radius compensation
- How to program cutter radius compensation, example
- Dimensional tool (wear) offsets
- Tool nose radius compensation
- What are other types of compensation
LANGUAGE ELEMENTS OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGe
- Address, Data, Word, Block, Sequence, Program ?
- Types of programs
PROGRAM FORMATING
- Reasons to format CNC programs
- Types of program format (program start-up, tool ending, tool start-up, and
program ending)
- Program configuration, structure and contents of an CNC program
LET’S START WRITING CNC PROGRAMS
- How to Prepare the work piece drawing
- Steps to prepare (mark up print, machining process, calculate coordinates,
selecting of tools, plan setup)
- How to define machining sequences
- How to create a machining plan
- How to translate the work steps into the machining language
- How to combine all individual steps in a program
- Simple programming example
- Program sample for machining a groove
- Practical examples of CNC programs
- Setting of selected cutting conditions
- CNC program examples
- Validation of CNC Program
- Monitoring of machining process
SPECIAL PROGRAMMING FEATURES
- Canned cycles
- Rigid tapping
- Grinding cycles
- Setup instructions and procedures with samples

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