| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄應用科技大學 === 機械與精密工程研究所 === 102 === The configurations of CNC machine tool have evolved in these years resulting in more and more fruitful functionalities not only on the three-axis machines but also on the contemporary five-axis machine tool. Therefore, the operation efficiency of machining has been enhanced a lot and becomes more important although their structures are becoming more and more complicated.
However, CNC machines are expensive. This financial burden has caused obstacles of an education institution in introducing sufficient real machine tool in cultivating novice students through hand-on operation practices. To the worse, the course hours of on-site practices had been cut resulting in bigger gap between the capability expectations of the industry and the education institution. Furthermore, the small-to-medium sized industry just could not afford to use the production machine tools in training inexperienced employees because the utilization rate of the machine will be reduced and the risk of collision will be higher.
In order to improve the above problems, this study adopted off-the-shelf drawing software to create virtual controller panel based on real controllers such as Advantech-LNC, SYNTEC, and FANUC, etc. The 3D geometry of real CNC machines were also constructed by using 3D CAD software Solidwork, and the virtual machine tool were created by the virtual reality software EON. A virtual machine tool was then integrated based on the completed virtual controller panels and the virtual machine tools by the Microsoft Visual studio. The developed system could then be operated in both manual data input mode and in automatic mode. General desktop and lap top computer could be used in installing the developed system so as to facilitate more novice students to learn the basic operation of a CNC machine without being afraid of collision risk and the high maintenance cost it might incur.
Keywords: Virtual Machine, Virtual Controller, NC Program
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