Method for displaying the machining in a machine tool
AssigneeGROB-WERKE GmbH & Co. KG
InventorBenjamin Kormann
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for representing the machining operations in the machining area of a machine tool, wherein a tool or workpiece is scanned and the machining process is visualized. The invention relates furthermore to a corresponding machine tool and a corresponding system.
Claims11
A method for representing machining operations in a machining area of a machine tool, in which a workpiece is machined by a tool with movement of the tool relative to the workpiece, comprising the steps of:
- before the start of machining, scanning, with a scanner, at least the workpiece and/or the tool and creating a three-dimensional data model therefrom;
- recording the model in a memory;
- during the machining of the workpiece, which includes a relative change of position of workpiece and tool, continually supplying relevant position information of the workpiece and/or tool to an image data processing unit;
- continually updating, in the image data processing unit, a three-dimensional data model from the memory with the position information;
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- displaying an updated, virtual image of workpiece and/or tool on a display unit, wherein a metal cutting machine tool comprising a motor spindle is provided as the machine tool, which motor spindle accommodates a tool for at least one rotative drive unit, and the motor spindle is also arranged to accommodate a scanner.
A machine tool for metal cutting machining of a workpiece by a tool, wherein a movement of the tool occurs relative to the workpiece in a machining area, comprising:
- at least one movement drive and a scanner, which scans at least the workpiece and/or the tool and creates a three-dimensional data model therefrom;
- a memory to store the data model;
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- an image data processing unit that continually receives relevant position information of the workpiece and/or tool during the machining, and wherein the image data processing unit continually updates the three-dimensional data model from the memory with the position information and displays an updated, virtual image of workpiece and/or tool on a display unit, wherein a metal cutting machine tool comprising a motor spindle is provided as the machine tool, which motor spindle accommodates a tool for at least one rotative drive unit, and the motor spindle is also arranged to accommodate a scanner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.