A NEW SET OF CANNED CYCLES FOR CNC MILLING MACHINES

Sotiris L. Omirou

Abstract: Canned cycles are a powerful manual programming tool for conveniently performing repetitive CNC machine operations. Canned cycles is an option that can be purchased from most CNC manufacturers However the number and type of canned cycles is generally limited to certain machining tasks and applied to the most common geometric shapes being unable to accommodate the increasing needs of the manufacturing industry. This paper comes to suggest a new set of canned cycles that extends the feature generating capabilities of CNC milling machines. The development of the new canned cycles is based on parametric programming an advanced programming technique available on all modern CNC machines. The effectiveness of the proposed new canned cycles is verified by simulation tests for each one of them.

Keywords: CNC, Canned cycles, Pocket machining, Cutter path generation

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2018.0709005