Method of setting up a gear cutting machine and gear cutting machine
AssigneeLiebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
InventorsThomas Karl, Marco Heider
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method of setting up a gear cutting machine, wherein the gear cutting machine is equipped with at least one machine part which can be set up and the parameters relating to the set-up machine part are input into the machine control for the subsequent gear cutting process, wherein a graphical model of the machine part is virtually composed on a display element of the gear cutting machine in a user-controlled manner from one or more graphical part components and the required parameters for the following gear cutting process are derived from the graphical modeling.
Claims19
A method of setting up a gear cutting machine, wherein the gear cutting machine is equipped with at least one machine part which can be set up, comprising:
- graphically presenting graphical part components on a multitouch-operable display element coupled to a machine control of the gear cutting machine;
- receiving, at the display element, user touch input, the user touch input selecting one or more of the graphical part components and virtually composing a graphical model on the display element in real time from the selected one or more graphical part components, wherein the graphical model is a graphical model of a machine part, and wherein the machine part is one of a plurality of machine parts which can be set up for use with the gear cutting machine;
- deriving required parameters for setting up the machine part for a subsequent gear cutting process in the gear cutting machine from the graphical model;
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- performing the gear cutting process in the gear cutting machine via the machine control, using the machine part, based on the required parameters.
A gear cutting machine comprising:
- at least one multitouch-operable display element;
- a processor having instructions stored in memory and communicating with the at least one display element;
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- a machine part controlled by the processor, wherein the machine part is one of a plurality of machine parts which can be set up for use with the gear cutting machine;
- wherein the instructions include instructions for setting up the gear cutting machine, including instructions for graphically presenting graphical part components on the at least one display element;
- receiving, at the display element, user touch input, the user touch input selecting one or more of the graphical part components and virtually composing a graphical model of the machine part on the display element in real time from the selected one or more graphical part components;
- deriving required parameters for setting up the machine part for a subsequent gear cutting process in the gear cutting machine from the graphical model;
- and performing the gear cutting process in the gear cutting machine via the machine control, using the machine part, based on the required parameters.
A method of setting up a gear cutting machine, wherein the gear cutting machine is equipped with at least one machine part, comprising:
- graphically presenting graphical part components on a multitouch-operable display element coupled to a machine control;
- receiving, at the display element, user touch input selecting one or more of the graphical part components;
- virtually composing and displaying a graphical model of the machine part on the display element in real time from the selected one or more graphical part components;
- deriving, via the machine control, required parameters for a subsequent gear cutting process in the gear cutting machine from data of the graphical model;
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- performing the subsequent gear cutting process in the gear cutting machine via the machine control with the required parameters,
- wherein the at least one machine part and/or a composition of the at least one machine part is selected via the user touch input from individual components from a database of the gear cutting machine,
- wherein the method further comprises performing a virtual plausibility check of the graphical model while taking account of a planned machining program, and
- wherein performing the virtual plausibility check comprises, with the machine control, monitoring whether all tools required for the planned machining program were set up via the user touch input.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.