ProfDia® / ProfDiaF® Wire
Programming the cutting edge
Clear input mask of the cutting geometries.
Selecting the cutting geometry
Easy capture of the cutting geometry from the imported DXF file
Defining the appropriate cutting technologies
Easy and quick adjustment of cutting technologies.
Automated reading of measurement data from the machine
The PCD is measured before the cutting process, to individually adjust the cutting program to the reality.
Project database
All projects are stored in a database. The database can be stored on a server.
Modern 3-D simulation
The programmed cutting edges can be checked here.
Analyze all teeth
The whole tool can be visualized and analyzed. In the alternative, selectable simulation only one tooth was possible.
More possibilities to analyze all rake and relief angles of a tools teeth.
Visual check of the relief angles clearances. The control circle can be optionally faded in and adjusted in its diameter and location.
More possibilities to analyze all rake and relief angles of a tools teeth.
Through continuous zooming the cutting geometry can be analyzed.
More possibilities to analyze all rake and relief angles of a tools teeth.
The cutting edge geometry can be examined in detail after measuring in the actual position (incl. axial relief & rake angle). This enables the early detection of measurement errors or potential colissions.
Collision check based on \“wire direction extention\”
This fade-in layer simplifies the collision check for komplex tools. So there is almost no need to do a \„Dry Run\“. The \„wire direction extention\“ can optionally be shown in both directions.
Collision check based on \“wire direction extention\”
Here the wire collides with a succeeding tooth. The tool will be destroyed.
Collision check based on \“wire direction extention\”
By optimization of the rake angles and the travel in/out paths in ProfDia a collision with the followin tooth will be avoided. The simulation supports this process and visualizes the result.
Superimposed coordinate system
Optionally the koordinate system can be shown. This enables a more easy check of the tools geometry.
Easy data export
Exporting the surfaces into a STL file to overlay it with the original CAD drawing.
Optimized for touch displays
Touch gesture support for zoom and rotation of the tool.
Complex tool for inner and outer machining
All cutting contours are programmed in a single project. The contour is split up in 3 parts.
Tool with three helically arranged rows of cutting edges
Only a single 2D-DXF file is needed. The measuring program determines the helical orientation.
Radius cutter R=6 t=12
Cutter with any amount of teeth can be programmed. Clearance angles can be adjusted individually. Only a single contour must be programmed which will be multipled by the wanted amount of teeth.
Profile tool made by wire erosion from cylindrically shaped blank
The machining operations are defined in a ProfDia project in five subcontours, which are executed one after the other without interruption. For this machining operation, it is not necessary to measure the rake faces, since the rake faces are produced with a defined position within the program sequence. This means that the position of the rake faces can be defined in advance in manually created measuring point lists."
Profiling of the tool cutting edges of PCD, CBN or carbide-tipped tools is in many cases performed by wire erosion. To ensure reproducible accuracy of the manufacturing result, the exact spatial position of the cutting insert surfaces (rake faces) must be known when creating the NC programs for profiling. Since the position cannot usually be determined with sufficient precision during prefabrication, it is necessary to determine the board position by a measuring operation before creating the NC program. This operation is not supported by standard CAD-CAM systems.
The GTR software ProfDia® and ProfDiaF® is able to create the required measuring program for correspondingly equipped machines, to read in the determined measuring data and to generate an exactly adapted cutting program with these measuring data. ProfDia® and ProfDiaF® essentially differ in that ProfDia® is optimized for rotating tools and ProfDiaF ® for flat tools. For now we support the post processing for the following machines: FANUC, Mitsubishi and Sodick.
The following features of the ProfDia® programming interface allow easy and intuitive program creation without special programming knowledge:
- Contour transfer in DXF format from any CAD system
- Parameter input in specialized, self-explanatory input masks
- Overall contour can be divided into any number of subcontours with individual parameters
- Clearance angle individually adjustable for each individual contour element
- Graphic simulation of measuring and cutting program supports the creation of error-free programs
- Easy handling due to optimized functions for program and measurement data transfer between programming computer and machine
- Easy handling due to optimized functions for program and measurement data transfer between programming computer and machine