Collision avoidance
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Collision avoidance allows you to avoid collisions and damage while machining a workpiece
or creating programs.
Software option
You require the "Collision Avoidance ECO (machine)" software option in order to
use this function for geometrically primitive protection area elements.
Software option
You require the "Collision Avoidance (machine, working area)" software option in
order to use this function additionally for protection area elements in the STL and
NPP data formats.
(840D sl only)
Software option
You require the "Collision Avoidance ADVANCED (machine, workpiece)" software
option in order to use this function additionally for the autonomous realization of
collision avoidance application.
(840D sl only)
Machine manufacturer
Please refer to the machine manufacturer's specifications.
Collision avoidance is based on a machine model. The kinematics of the machine are
described as a kinematic chain. For machine parts to be protected, protection areas are
attached to these chains. The geometry of the protection areas is defined using protection
area elements. The control then knows how they move in the machine coordinate system
depending on the position of the machine axes. You then subsequently define the collision
pairs, i.e. two protection areas, which are monitored with respect to one another.
The "Collision avoidance" function regularly calculates the clearance from these protection
areas. When two protection areas approach one another and a specific safety clearance is
reached, an alarm is displayed and the program is stopped before the corresponding traversing
block and/or the traversing motion is stopped.
Note
The collision monitoring is only valid for single-channel machines.
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