Method for managing turret tools by using visual information for machine tool
AssigneeDoosan Machine Tools Co., Ltd.
InventorsJi Eun Yi, Sung Hoon Cho
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method for managing turret tools for a machine tool, and more particularly, by setting tool information and changing a mounting location of the tool, which is to be mounted or has been mounted, by using visual information about a turret mounted in the machine tool and the tool mounted in the turret, a user may intuitively check information about a tool mounted on the turret and to easily set tool installation information which needs to be set when mounting and detaching the tool, changing a location of the tool, or installing the tool in a machine tool.
Claims9
A method for managing turret tools by using visual information for a machine tool, which manages values of respective items of inherent tool information and installation information about a tool required for writing a numerical control (NC) program, the method comprising:
- a controller defining a tool required for a processing process of a machine tool;
- the controller determining a tool mounting location of the defined tool on a turret;
- a display unit, coupled to the controller, displaying a virtual image of the turret;
- the display unit displaying a virtual image of mounting the defined tool on the displayed virtual image of the turret according to the determined tool mounting location;
- the controller communicating data associated with the determined tool mounting location to a programmable machine controller;
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- the programmable machine controller mounting the defined tool on the turret according to the data associated with the determined tool mounting location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.