Dr. Johannes Heidenhain Gmbh

Josef Huber

Horst Burkhardt

Norbert Vollmayr

Werner Gorski

A process for generating a data structure of a computer model of a processed workpiece. The contours of the workpiece and the cross section of the tool, as well as the path movement of the tool, are analyzed in a grid such as is presented by a raster picture screen and associated image point memory of a microprocessor controlled graphic control unit of a numerically controlled machine tool. At each point of the coordinated grids the height of the workpiece is linked with the programmed processing depth of the tool and in this way the altered data structure of the workpiece is determined. The altered data structure can serve for the representation of the computer model thus determined on a picture screen. The linkage of the data from grid point to grid point is thus reduced to a number comparison for the Z coordinate, thereby maintaining both computer and apparatus capital expenses at a low level.

Process for generating a computer model of an alterable structure

A process for the perspective representation of objects on the picture screen of a numerically controlled machine tool is described in which the object is resolved into a series of sections which are represented successively with a given perspective offset. In order to avoid the representation of covered edges of these sections, the contours of the individual section surfaces are checked prior to being represented in order to determine whether or not they overlap a previously represented contour. This checking occurs through a simple coordinate comparison, taking into account the actual perspective shift between sections.

Apparatus and process for graphically representing three-dimensional

A numerically controlled machine tool for producing tangential entry into a compensated contour and for the tangential leaving from a compensated contour. The numerically controlled machine tool also produces the interior or exterior rounding of intersections between two contours.

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Engelsberg, Germany

Josef Huber