Machining route display device

A machining route display device for displaying a plurality of machining routes juxtaposed with each other in a laser machine for laser machining a workpiece with a laser output from a laser machining head while relatively moving the laser machining head and the workpiece with respective drive shafts, wherein a number of the drive shafts corresponds to a number of movable directions for the machining of the workpiece, the device comprising:

• a processor configured to:
• acquire positional information of the respective drive shaft for each predefined control cycle;
• calculate a coordinate value of the laser machining head for each unit of time of the acquired positional information of the respective drive shaft and machine configuration information of the laser machine,
• acquire first data relating to the laser machining for the each unit of time, wherein the first data for the each unit of time acquired by the processor is a laser output value of the laser outputted from the laser machining head,
• acquire second data for the each unit of time relating to the laser machining, wherein the second data for the each unit of time is data different from the first data for the each unit of time, and wherein the second data for the each unit of time is at least one of a gap amount between the laser machining head and the workpiece or a reflected light reflected by the laser on the workpiece,
• set at least one of a display color of the first data for the each unit of time and a shade of the display color as a display format of the plurality of machining routes for the first data for the each unit of time for each of the predefined control cycles, wherein the shade of the display color along the plurality of machining routes for each of the predefined control cycles corresponds to a level of magnitude of the laser output value of the first data for the each unit of time from the laser machining head,
• set at least one of a display color of the second data for the each unit of time and a shade of the display color as a display format of the plurality of machining routes for the second data for the each unit of time for each of the predefined control cycles, wherein the shade of the display color of the second data along the plurality of machining routes for each of the predefined control cycles corresponds to a level of magnitude of the second data for the each unit of time, and
• display, based on the calculated coordinate values of the laser machining head, the respective juxtaposed machining routes for each of the predefined control cycles for the first data for the each unit of time and the second data for the each unit of time, and display the respective corresponding display formats for the first data for the each unit of time and the second data for the each unit of time, wherein
• at least one of the display color of the first data for the each unit of time of the laser output value and the shade of the display color of the first data for the each unit of time of the laser output value is changed in accordance with the level of magnitude of the first data for the each unit of time, and at least one of the display color of the second data for the each unit of time and the shade of the display color of the second data for the each unit of time is changed in accordance with the level of magnitude of the second data for the each unit of time,
• the display format for each of the plurality of machining routes for each of the predefined control cycles providing a visual relationship between the laser output of the first data for the each unit of time and the at least one of the gap amount or the reflected light of the second data for the each unit of time.