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News Release from: Sodi-Tech edm | Subject: Sodick 3D Q3vic Solution for EDM
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 November 2003
Wire and cavity-sinking EDM performance
upped 40%
Optimisation package transmits CAD 3D solid data to 3D EDM controller that analyses it and converts it directly into process data, so increasing machine performance by up to 40%.
When we praise the advantages of linear drive systems, our main criteria are hard processing factors such as high dynamics, rapid speed, excellent precision and optimal repetitive consistency But now the linear motor is able to offer much more
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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As a pioneer in linear EDM technology, Sodick is now introducing 3D Q3vic Solution, a groundbreaking new high-tech package for total optimization of the EDM process.
The Q3vic Solution increases the performance of wire and die-sinking EDM machines by up to 40 percent, inspiring a revolution in the EDM sector.
The concept behind 3D Q3vic Solution is as simple as it is ingenious.
3D solid data is transmitted directly from the CAD system via an interface to Sodick's new 3D LQ-controller.
Once there, the data is analyzed by special software and then automatically converted into processing data.
For the first time, the user can close the gap in the three-dimensional process chain from design to production, eliminating time-consuming detours via CAM systems and abstract 2D data at the machine.
With Q3vic Solution every wire and cavity-sinking EDM machine from Sodick knows from the very first spark and down to the last detail how the work-piece should be processed - without any need for the machine operator to carry out manual intervention.
The LQ controller automatically calculates not only the axis movements of the machine, but also those parameters for electric current and automatic spark gap compensation that keep wear and tear to a minimum at every point of the process - always based on the work-piece and electrode geometries that have been read into or calculated by the machine.
Tooling expenditures are thus reduced to a minimum and EDM results are independent of the expertise of the particular operator.
In the menu-driven dialogue with the 3D LQ controller, the operator needs only to enter data on the material, desired surface quality, clamping or work-piece position, and the potential need for an electrode change while sinking.
This also eliminates operator error to the greatest possible extent, since the EDM process can be simulated and controlled in 3D from the very onset of production.
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