NUMROTO Grinding Software Includes Draw Function

By DE Editors

Tool manufacturers can now automatically create dimensioned engineering drawings of machine tools showing their precise geometry by using a new facility for NUM's NUMROTO grinding software. By producing cross-sectional views of a tool, the new NUMROTO Draw function can automate production verification. The drawings can also incorporate images obtained directly from 3D simulation of a tool, enabling complex grinding details to be portrayed graphically.

NUMROTO Draw is tightly integrated with the core NUMROTO software. The drawing is derived directly from the same data source as the CNC program, ensuring there is no ambiguity in the process. Using data that defines the spatial course of the tools cutting edge, the software automatically calculates all dimensions that require presentation and then generates the appropriate drawing. If any of the dimensions do not meet a customers requirement, they can be amended easily.

Provided that the NUMROTO program also includes the grinding wheel data, NUMROTO Draw can process this information to create 3D details and integrate them with the drawing. The 3D details can be represented as color images or as wire frame models, and provide an accurate portrayal of the tools profile or cross sectional geometry between or at any position(s) along its length. The drawings are fully editable.

A separate table, showing the main parameters of the tool, can either be created by the user or adapted from one of the templates supplied by NUM, and can be populated using values from the NUMROTO database to help save time.

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