Authors
Seung-Jun Shin, Suk-Hwan Suh, Ian Stroud
Publication date
2007/1/1
Journal
Computer-Aided Design
Volume
39
Issue
1
Pages
1-16
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
As STEP-NC emerges as the new CNC control method and a fundamental means for realizing e-manufacturing, old manufacturing information based on the conventional manufacturing standard will become obsolete. In practice, replacement of G-code based part programs into STEP-NC is a huge task. In this paper, methods to interpret G-code based part programs into STEP-NC code are investigated. G-code is a compact, coded set of numbers for axis movements, while STEP-NC is very comprehensive and includes information about features, operations, strategies, cutting tools, and so on. It is thus very challenging to derive such comprehensive information from the low level G-code information. In this paper, we first clarify what should be given and what may be given, and then present algorithms for deriving STEP-NC information, such as geometric features, operations, etc., from the tool movement (G-code …
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SJ Shin, SH Suh, I Stroud - Computer-Aided Design, 2007