Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering (산업경영시스템학회지)

Society of Korea Industrial and System Engineering (한국산업경영시스템학회)
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Cutting Motion Simulator for Nutating Head Type S-axis CNC Laser Cutting Machine

Nutating 헤드 타입 5축 CNC 레이저 절단기용 동작 시뮬레이터

  • Kang, Jae-Gwan (Division of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Kyungnam University)
  • 강재관 (경남대학교 기계자동화공학부)
  • Received : 2011.06.19
  • Accepted : 2011.07.21
  • Published : 2011.09.30
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Abstract

5-axis laser cutting has great advantages when it is applied to three dimensional machining requiring high cutting quality. For developing 5-axis CNC laser cutting systems, however, many problems such as rotating a laser head or a working table, 5-axis servo-control mechanism, tool path generation and post-processing, and collision avoidance between a laser head and a work-piece should be solved. In this paper, we deal with developing a motion simulator for 5-axis laser cutting machine with a nutating cutting head whose rotational axis is in an inclined plane. Two essential modules such as post-processor and cutting motion simulator was developed based on a commercial 3D CAD of UG-NX. The developed system was applied to three dimensional cutting products and showed the validity of the developed methods.

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