Method of non-linear route display

US6493602B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Walter Kranitzky · Traunstein, DE
• Anton Brader · Obing, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 12, 1999
• Grant date: Dec 10, 2002
• Expiry date: May 12, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/37082
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method of non-linear display of routes of a machine-tool or another mechanism and including determining a set path based on stored commands and determining an actual path based on actual displacements during operation of the machine-tool or another mechanism resulting from execution of the stored commands, graphically displaying the set path and components of the actual path, which extend parallel to the set path, at a first scale, graphically displaying components of the actual path, which extend perpendicular to the set path, at a second scale, and graphically displaying at a selected points of the set path, the set path and the components of the actual path, which extend parallel to the set path, at a third scale and the components of the actual path, which extend perpendicular to the set path, at a fourth scale.