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New Products
semiconductor, metrology and robotic industries. This new LIC 3100 abso- lute kit encoder is an additional offer- ing that fits between HEIDENHAIN’s already LIC 4100 and 2100 series.
The new LIC 3100 encoder is car- ried by a sturdy stainless-steel tape. This steel tape scale has a 2-track graduation resulting in a period of 80 microns. The tape scale is offered in rolls at 3m, 5m, and 10m lengths and can be inserted into an aluminum extru- sion for better thermal growth behav- ior or can be mounted directly to the motion axis surface with an adhesive backing on the steel tape.
The reader head of the LIC 3100 can output a measuring step of just 10 nanometers and maintain a velocity of 10 meters per second. It is offered with the well-known EnDat 2.2 high speed serial electrical interface as well as five others, making it plug-and-play com- patible with motion controllers. The interpolation error, or cyclical error, is merely +/- 100 nanometers.
Mounting of the reader head to the scale is fast and simple due to forgiving mounting tolerances and easy-to-use handheld diagnostic tools. A zero- datum position can be programmed anywhere along the scale length.
New Five-Axis Postpro-
cessor
—CNC Software
FANUC America and CNC Soft- ware, developer of the Mastercam CAM software, have released a new postprocessor designed to optimize five-axis capabilities in Fanuc CNC machines. The new postprocessor allows advanced machine tool opera- tors to reduce their cycle times while boosting part accuracy, particularly for CAD/CAM-generated five-axis simul- taneous contouring part processes.
Key functions in the Milling Stan- dard Package for FANUC controls
include Tool Center Point (TCP), Workpiece Setting, Error Compensa- tion (WSEC), advanced lookahead algorithms AICC II with Smooth Tolerance Control+ and an Easy Setting Function to support multiple
acceleration and process profiles. The companies designed this package to power the future of advanced five-axis machining in conjunction with the lat- est FANUC-controlled machine tools and the new Mastercam postprocessor.
CNC WEST February/March 2021
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