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NcStudio V12 CCD Control System Manufacturers' Manual
This manual is intended for manufacturers of machine tools. It mainly includes:
Configuration and Wiring Diagram
Install Software
Software Interface
CCD Operations
Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)
Terms
1. Configuration and Wiring Diagram
This section introduces product configuration and wiring.
1.1. Product Configuration
Product configuration can be divided into hardware configuration and software
configuration.
Hardware configuration is as follows:
NC65C controller
Lambda 5M terminal board
EX31A1 terminal board
Camera
WISE driver (Absolute type)
MA/MN/ME/MB series motor (Absolute type)
Handwheel (Optional)
Software configuration is as follows:
NcStudio V12 CCD software
Camera driver
SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Version: 2018.10 1st Version
Author: Document Department
Weihong Corporation, All Rights Reserved
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  • Page 1 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. NcStudio V12 CCD Control System Manufacturers’ Manual Version: 2018.10 1st Version Author: Document Department Weihong Corporation, All Rights Reserved This manual is intended for manufacturers of machine tools. It mainly includes: •...
  • Page 2: Wiring Diagram

    上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 1.2. Wiring Diagram Wiring Diagram includes the wiring diagram of the product and terminal boards. 1.2.1. Product wiring diagram The product wiring diagram is as follows: 2 / 47...
  • Page 3 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 1.2.2. Wiring Diagrams of Terminal Boards Terminal boards used in CCD system include Lambda 5M and EX31A1. The wiring diagram of Lambda 5M terminal board is as follows: 3 / 47...
  • Page 4: Install Software

    上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. The wiring diagram of EX31A1 extended terminal board is as follows: 2. Install Software This section includes installing the following in order: Camera driver NcStudio V12 CCD control system During installation, plug-in NcCloud will be installed automatically.
  • Page 5 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 2.2. Install NcStudio V12 CCD Control System It is unnecessary to install NcStudio V12 CCD Control System, because it has been installed correctly when you own the NC65C host. If you need to re-install or update NcStudio, do the following: Double click NcStudio V12 installer.
  • Page 6 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Meanwhile, a window showing NcCloud setup progress pops up: During this period, plug-in NcCloud will be installed automatically. Click OK to restart the computer. Re-installing/updating NcStudio V12 succeeds. If you need to uninstall the system, delete the following: •...
  • Page 7: Operating Interface

    上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 3. Operating Interface The operating interface of NcStudio V12 CCD Control System is as follows: Menu bar Status bar Machine control bar Function windows Manual control area Tool information area Port control area...
  • Page 8 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 3.1. Function windows Function windows include the following: • Coor window • Track window • Offset window • HD List window • Center window • CCD Setting window • Param window •...
  • Page 9 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. You can click the input boxes in yellow to directly edit the value of related parameters. After axes have returned to the machine origin, the sign will appear before related axes. 3.1.2. Track Window...
  • Page 10 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 3.1.3. Offset Window In this window, you can set workpiece offset and public offset, which is good for programming and shortening axis moving distance: • Workpiece offset: it shows the distance of the workpiece origin relative to the machine origin.
  • Page 11 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. To set public offset, do the following: To set public offset for X-axis/Y-axis, click the input box of related axis and set a value: To set public offset for Z-axis, do one of the following: •...
  • Page 12 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 3.1.5. Center Window In this window, you can define the workpiece origin for regular rectangular workpiece through finding the center point by two points on the workpiece: To do centering, do the following (take centering X-axis as an example): Turn off the spindle to avoid danger from too fast spindle speed.
  • Page 13 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 3.1.6. CCD Setting Window In this window, you can execute operations of CCD setting: • To Shoot CCD moves to the related shooting position. • To Focal Height Spindle moves to the clearest position of the picture.
  • Page 14 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. • Basic Setting Click this button, CCD Basic Setting interface pops up: – Save Param: save CCD related parameters. – Import Param: import parameters saved by Save Param operation. – To Focal Point: move the camera to the focal height.
  • Page 15 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 3.1.7. Param Window This window shows all parameters in NcStudio V12 CCD Control System: You can check and modify the values of parameters by: • Function Parameters are divided into Operation, Feed Axis, Parse and Tool.
  • Page 16 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 3.1.8. Port Window This window shows port information: 16 / 47...
  • Page 17 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 3.1.9. Set Absolute Function Window In this window, you can set the machine origin, also known as datum: This operation is required only commissioning for the machine tool is required. To set datum, do one of the following: •...
  • Page 18: Operating Buttons

    上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 3.2. Operating Buttons You can click corresponding buttons or shortcut keys (F1~F11) to realize corresponding operation: Among them, Clear (F7) is used to clear the pubic offset. Click it to select the corresponding axis to do clearing: 3.3.
  • Page 19 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 3.4. Tool Information Area In this area, you can check tool information: Click Tool Compensation Param to set tool compensation parameters: 19 / 47...
  • Page 20 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 3.5. Manual Control Area In this area, you can control axis movement and select feed mode: Axis direction buttons: used to move each axis towards positive or negative direction: – Only click an axis button. The axis moves at jogging speed.
  • Page 21 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 4. CCD Operations To execute CCD operations, do the following: Switch to CCD Setting window. Set camera Debug CCD and the machine Set CCD and the workpiece Execute other operations 4.1. Set the Camera This operation mainly contains setting the following two parameters: •...
  • Page 22 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. After setting, exposure and gain time corresponding to the percentages automatically shows. Note: Too large percentage of Expose results in low captured frame rate. Thus, Expose should be set properly. After setting Expose, you need to consider whether to increase the shoot delay time(unit: ms).
  • Page 23 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Click Pick Current to set Z-axis coordinate of the focal length: The value automatically fills to the right button. 4.2.2. Measure the Magnification Aim of the operation: To obtain the proportional relationship between the pixel and the displacement.
  • Page 24 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Click Pick Feature Pt to set the current point as feature point. The point will be looked for during measuring magnification. The point must be unique within the camera view. What Are the Requirements for the Selected Feature Points in Measuring Magnification? for details.
  • Page 25 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Click Record: Turn the handwheel to find the hole position and move camera center to the tangent position of the hole in X-axis direction: 25 / 47...
  • Page 26 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Move a tool radius in X-axis direction. At this time, the coordinate in X-axis direction is the position of the circle center: Repeat the step to check the setting of tool radius. If it is set correctly, the CCD center should be on the other side of the tangent position: Repeat steps 6 and 7 to find the center position in Y-axis direction.
  • Page 27 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 4.3.1. Set Image Matching Mode With a few exceptions, most feature points are the same. For shooting points with the same features, you only need to set a template; for shooting points with different features, you need to set templates for each shooting point.
  • Page 28 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Shoot by Single Point When programming, you need to set the circle center as the workpiece origin. After shooting, the system will set the found center as the workpiece origin. This operation is suitable to process circles.
  • Page 29 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Example In the figure below, the two shooting points are horizontal in X-axis direction with 40mm distance and the first shooting point is set as workpiece origin: Thus, the position of the second point is (X40, Y0).
  • Page 30 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Shoot by Four Points This method is similar to shooting by three points. If shooting a point fails in shooting by three points, shooting by four points is required. To shoot by four points, do the following: Switch to Param page and set the parameter CCD Shoot Mode to 4.
  • Page 31 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. To edit a template, do the following: Click Edit. The Outline Positioning dialog box pops up. Switch to Set Template page and click Reset Template. Drag the rectangle to the position of the feature point: The size of the rectangle needs to be equal to the size of the feature point.
  • Page 32 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Switch to Edit Template page to process the extracted features: Min Contrast and Max Contrast Used to set the contrast of the feature points. In general, the range of the minimum contrast is [20, 80] and the range of the maximum contrast is [60, 120].
  • Page 33 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Switch to Search Area page to set search area for the feature points. In general, the feature point is near the center of the picture. Thus, it is recommended to select a smaller range.
  • Page 34 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. In general, the range of the parameter Score is [0.3, 0.7] and the range of the parameter Level is [4, 6]. After it is done, click Detect to detect whether shooting is successful.
  • Page 35 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 4.4.2. Execute Array Machining To execute array machining, do the following: Switch to Craft page: Check Setting ON and enter the manufacturer password. Check Array Machining to enable array machining. Set line number and space and column number and space.
  • Page 36 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 4.4.3. Enable CCD You can choose whether to enable CCD according to machining technics. To enable CCD, do the following: Switch to Craft page: Check Setting ON and enter the manufacturer password.
  • Page 37 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Check Setting ON and enter the manufacturer password. Check Set Work Zero by CCD Center to enable set the workpiece origin by CCD center. 4.4.5. Set Safety offset In actual machining, the hollowed-out area on the workpiece is quite small. If the workpiece is tiled, direct machining may damage the workpiece.
  • Page 38 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 4.4.6. Set Workpiece Offset Compensation In actual machining, if the machined workpiece is tilted to one side, setting workpiece offset compensation is required. To set workpiece offset compensation, do the following: Switch to Craft page and check Setting ON.
  • Page 39 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. – Single compensation With array machining enabled, the workpiece offset compensation of each workpiece needs to be individually set. When lead screw of the machine results in the damage of a certain workpiece, single compensation is required.
  • Page 40 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Select compensation type: – Overall compensation It is the common compensation type. With array machining enabled, the set workpiece offset compensation is suitable for all workpieces in the array. – Single compensation With array machining enabled, the workpiece offset compensation of each workpiece needs to be individually set.
  • Page 41 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. To set Z-axis depth compensation,do the following: Switch to Craft page and check Setting ON. Click Set Part Offset Comp. Work Offset Compensation diaglog box pops up: Check Enable Offset to enable offset.
  • Page 42 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 4.4.10. Set Automatic Layer compensation This operation helps to solve the problem of reusing the same tool and increase its reusing rate. To set automatic layer compensation, do the following: Click Operate → Auto Layer Compensation. Enable Auto Layer Comp dialog box pops up: Check Settings ON and enter the manufacturer password to enable setting.
  • Page 43: Frequently Asked Questions (Faq)

    Finished Times is equal to the value of Length Comp Interval. 5. Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) This section contains answers to common questions in NcStudio V12 CCD Control System. For additional questions, contact our technical sales engineers.
  • Page 44 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Example If the following workpiece is machined: Then: the maximum error value in machining point C is CE/BE*1 pixel, which is about 2.2 pixels. If the magnification is 200, • The maximum error value of point C and point D is 0.011mm.
  • Page 45 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Check the setting of shooting points. Shoot for details. Check the shoot delay time to see if it is too short. If the shoot delay time is too short, shooting will be calculated without the machine’s stop.
  • Page 46 上 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 5.6. What are the Differences between Simulation and Actual Machining? The main differences are as follows: • Tool nose is used in actual machining; while view center of the camera is used to simulate along tool path in simulation.
  • Page 47 海维宏电子科技股份有限公司 SHANGHAI WEIHONG ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. 6. Terms This section introduces important terms in NcStudio V12 CCD Control System. Focal Length Only when Z-axis moves to a fixed position, you can get a clear picture. This position is the focal length.
  • Page 48 S P E C I A L I Z E D / C O N C E N T R A T E D / F O C U S E D Shanghai Weihong Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. Address: No. 1590, Huhang Rd., Fengxian, Shanghai, China, 201401 Hot-line: 400 882 9188 Website: www.weihong.com.cn/en...