HEIDENHAIN TNC 620 User Manual page 8

Fundamentals
TNC model, software and features
Software options
The TNC 620 features various software options that can be enabled by your machine tool builder. Each option is to
be enabled separately and contains the following respective functions:
Additional Axis (option 0 and option 1)
Additional axis
Advanced Function Set 1
Expanded functions Group 1
Advanced Function Set 2
Expanded functions Group 2
Touch Probe Functions
Touch probe functions
HEIDENHAIN DNC (option 18)
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Additional control loops 1 and 2
(option 8)
Machining with rotary tables
Cylindrical contours as if in two axes
Feed rate in distance per minute
Coordinate transformations:
Tilting the working plane
Interpolation:
Circle in 3 axes with tilted working plane (spatial arc)
(option 9)
3-D machining:
Motion control with minimum jerk
3-D tool compensation through surface normal vectors
Using the electronic handwheel to change the angle of the swivel
head during program run without affecting the position of the tool
point. (TCPM = Tool Center Point Management)
Keeping the tool normal to the contour
Tool radius compensation perpendicular to traversing direction and
tool direction
Interpolation:
Linear in 5 axes (subject to export permit)
(option 17)
Touch probe cycles:
Compensation of tool misalignment in automatic mode
Datum setting in the Manual Operation mode
Datum setting in automatic mode
Automatically measuring workpieces
Tools can be measured automatically
Communication with external PC applications over COM component
HEIDENHAIN | TNC 620 | Conversational Programming User's Manual | 10/2015