Okuma Corporation

Katsunori Kunimitsu

Yasushi Fukaya

Masayuki Sugie

A numeric controller is provided with a three-dimensional model storage which stores a three-dimensional model of at least one of a workpiece and a jig; a three-dimensional measuring unit which integrally measures shapes of the workpiece and the jig fixed to the machine tool; and a shape processor generating an integrally measured model based on the measured data, in which the workpiece and the jig being integrally recognized, measured by the three-dimensional measuring unit, and further generating, regarding at least one of the workpiece and the jig, an individually measured model in which the workpiece or the jig is individually measured based on the generated integrally measured model and the three-dimensional model of the workpiece or the jig.

Numerical controller for controlling a tool and distinguished workpiece and jig

A numerical control apparatus can perform a machining simulation or an interference check that reflects worksite information. However, a machining simulation apparatus cannot use worksite information in a machining simulation or an interference check. Thus, simulation conditions of the machining simulation apparatus are different from those of the numerical control apparatus. To solve this problem, a machining simulation apparatus and a numerical control apparatus according to the present invention can communicate with each other via a communication unit or a storage medium so as to mutually transmit and receive data. The machining simulation apparatus includes a network transmission/reception control unit or an external memory reading/writing unit. Similarly, the numerical control apparatus includes a network transmission/reception control unit or an external memory reading/writing unit.

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Niwa-gun, Japan

Katsunori Kunimitsu