Heidenhain Training

Heidenhain Training

Heidenhain Training

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CNC Training Centre offers Heidenhain training both on-site and off-site. The Heidenhain TNC control has been around since the 1970’s and similar to Mazak it was well ahead of its time.

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Heidenhain is a lot more friendly to the user than some controls. A lot of controls will allow you to basically input any old shit and then try and run the code. With these types of control nothing is really monitoring what you are inputting. Not until you actually run the program do you start to get alarms flying around everywhere.

Whenever I train people, I would guess under 35, they have this real instinct to just type and press buttons at lightening speed. Now this is great when you are playing space invader or whatever. Sorry I am not well up on computer games.

 

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You see the thing is now most software is very intuitive and programmers and interface designers have done an amazing job. We download an app or some free software and we fiddle around with it and soon its all working. The idea is you just experiment until you get it working. It’s designed with this in mind.

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Take Microsoft word as an example. How many of you have actually been on a training course? Exactly none of you.

But everyday we all use it with great success.

Anyway start doing this on a CNC machine and bang crash wallop, you end up with a lost limb and a pile of scrap metal. And I didn’t even mention the busted tool and the machine that needs a £2000 re alignment. Anyway you get my drift.

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CNC machines are just not that way at all. I mean yea there are a few exceptions but still you really need professional instruction. Sorry rambling again sign up today for a Heidenhain Training Course.

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Heidenhain Sections in a Program

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Heidenhain Sections, I don’t get to work on Heidenhain controls anywhere near as much as I would like to.

A recent training program we undertook with a packaging company meant I got loads of time to have fun with this control whilst working with some fantastic people oh, and I got paid too.

Heidenhain Sections

Ever since I first worked on Heidenhain controls in the early 80s I have found them very intuitive. As with all the CNC controls (and I am gonna have a moan) they tend to get over complicated.

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Full Circle Heidenhain (Macro Program)

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Macro to program a Full Circle Heidenhain

Heidenhain has its own form of parametric programming it uses Q values sometimes called Q DEF.

Er what you on about now David? You ask.

Ok sorry to shroud you in a cocoon of total bullshit.

It’s like Macro on a Fanuc Control. What you do is you program a circle and instead of putting numbers for the X values n stuff you put a Q number like Q1 or Q10

Then you tell it what the Q values are. So instead of X-20. you could have X+Q10

If you then went on to define Q10 as -20 then X would be X-20.

All will be revealed.

Take a look at this code.

Full Circle Heidenhain

This code will mill a full circle and because it’s in incremental (note the I in front of the X value) you can dump one anywhere. By that I mean you can mill one of these circles anywhere not take a shit anywhere.

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Now watch it in action.

This is great but it is not easy to control. If we wanted a different diameter there are quite a few figures to change. If you are a bit of a prick like me then you’d probably get it wrong and scrap the part.

Q DEF To The Rescue Full Circle Heidenhain

Using Q def is really easy. You could start by using it to change the feedrate. Look at the code now.

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Line 7 and line 17 define Q1 as two different values.Full Circle Heidenhain

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So when each one calls LBL 1 the feedrate in line 25 will change to whatever value is in Q1.

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Clever eh…..

But that’s not all.

You can have loads of Q values whopeeee.

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