topic Re: 6 axis milling machine in PowerMill Forum

6 axis milling machine

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:07:49 GMT

Hi,

does anyone have experience with programming of 6 axis milling machine in PowerMill? Can anyone give me any advice and guidelines how to setup PP for this (or provide me some examples)?

Tanks.

Re: 6 axis milling machine

kukelyk — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:20:59 GMT

I think You will need two separate 5 axis postprocessors.

Re: 6 axis milling machine

paolo.bastianelli — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:29:22 GMT

Hi @Anonymous and thanks for your post.

It depends on the controller you are using. Could you be more specific in terms of machine and controller please?

Thanks,
Paolo

Re: 6 axis milling machine

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:41:35 GMT

Hi Paolo. Tanks for reply.

It is Heidenhain iTNC 640 controller.

Kinematics of machine is as follows:

- Table: translation X and Y; rotation C

- Head: translation Z; rotation A and B

Re: 6 axis milling machine

paolo.bastianelli — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:55:59 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I spoke to the post processor team and they said we could probably supply a vector post for your controller. Alternatively we could provide a rotary post that can drive any 2 of the 3 rotary axes. These would have to be requested to your Autodesk commercial contact who will then raise a ticket for it.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the simulation in PowerMill will also only use 2 rotary axes unless the PowerMill Robot Interface is used.

Thanks,
Paolo

Re: 6 axis milling machine

zfreitas — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:33:27 GMT

Hello,

DO you know if with vectors I can still used drilling cycles?

Thanks

Re: 6 axis milling machine

l.ponsaerts — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 08:44:18 GMT

Hi Paolo,

I also have a request for Powermill driving a 6 axis machine : XYZ, two rotary axes (A & B, head-head configuration) plus a third C axis on the B axis, rotating 360°), the machine will be used as a 6 axis additive machine for printing concrete.

It has a Siemens 840 control.

Probably only possible using the robot interface?

Re: 6 axis milling machine

kelvin.hamilton — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:44:16 GMT

Hello Luc.

I'm running a couple of 5+ axes machines with Additive using just the standard 5x post.
On these machines not all axes are driven simultanuously. In your case, are all driven simultanuously or do you have some positioning axes?

Re: 6 axis milling machine

l.ponsaerts — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 13:11:24 GMT

Simulaneously. If the 6th axis were to be used as a positional axis a user defined paramerter can be used. But here it is simulraneously.

Re: 6 axis milling machine

kelvin.hamilton — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 08:24:41 GMT

I see.

Then treating it as a 'robot' is your best bet.

Re: 6 axis milling machine

zfreitas — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 08:30:15 GMT

That is not true Paolo.

We do have a 6 axis post for a FPT VERUS machine up and running!

Re: 6 axis milling machine

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:47:01 GMT

FPT VERSUS machine

ware can I find this post. this is something I can edit