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Make Your Move Demo

Make Your Move application simulates manufacturing of a drill bit with a 5 axis CNC grinding machine and high performance collision detection. The application is a proposal for custom development. Please contact us if you have any comments or suggestions.

Running the application  

Quick demo:

• Press "Simulate" button to see the process animation
• Press "Reset" button
• Turn on "Enable Collision Detection" check box
• Press "Simulate" button. to see a collision detected
• Press "Home" button
• Press "Test Performance" button

User Interface

The "Application mode" radio buttons allows changing between Simulation and Design modes.

In simulation mode the application either runs animation on "Simulate" button clicks or modifies machine state interactively on slider moves and changes of selection in the "Moves" list box.

In design mode the application acts as a a move editor. It displays position at the end of the selected move. The position can be modified with slider and set of radio buttons in the "Selected Move" group of controls.

The application displays a default move set, which are linear moves in each axis.

"Machine State" edit boxes display the current position of each machine axis.

"Selected Move" edit boxes display changes in each axes for the selected move.

"Home" button zeroes positions of all axes

"Reset" button removes all modification, including modifications of the move set and restores initial position.

Implementation

Source code for the demo is available on request with any licensed product.

Further Development

Machine layout and parameters can be easily modified and additional devices added and included in the simulation

Model of the machine or its parts can be imported from any CAD system.

Moves can be made free-form with any order of interpolation. Move set can be saved/imported to/from any custom format.

Source code can be integrated / ported into an existent application or it can be driven via external application using inter-process communication.

Applications

The application can be used as a low-level real time service which displays the current machine position in high zoom, without obscuring objects: cover, coolant, etc.

The application can also run in background without any user interface or 3D rendering as high performance collision detection engine.

The application can be very helpful for debugging and testing of machine control software

See also: KernelCAD documentation start page