CNC Control Card & Software

CNC2000 Series Control Cards and Software

Our CNC2000 control card and software can maximally support 6-axis control at the same time.  It operates under Windows such as Win10, Win7, Win2000, WinXP, Windows98, WindowsSME or Windows95. It can be used in the numerical control system of 3-axis linear motion + 3-axis rotational motion (X,Y,Z,C,A,B) or 6-axis rotational motion (6-joint mechanical arm). Also it can control all the lasers in the market such as YAG lasers, CO2 lasers, fiber lasers and ultrafast lasers.

The CNC control card is an Ethernet card which is more convenient for connections. The advantages and features of the CNC control card are

• Better stability, anti-interference and precision than traditional PCI card

• More convenient for connections

• No need to have a PCI slot to insert the control card

• Operate in all versions of Windows systems

• Operate in laptop or desktop computers

• Can output 0-10V analogue voltage to achieve the real-time control of the fiber laser power

• Can output 24V PWM signals to control the frequency and pulse width of the fiber lasers or CO2 lasers

• One control card can support 6-axis system and combined 2 cards can support 10-12-axis system

• The number of the input ports has been increased to 32 to achieve multi-station control and various kinds of logic control according to different input signals

Our control cards are made with multi-layer circuit boards and power source and ground are separated into two layers. Although the card costs more, they improve the performance of anti-interference. Thus our cards can be used in precise control.

Our software’s functions are strong and easy to operate. The programming is simple and easy. There are 3 methods to write a programming: automatic conversion of PLT and DXF files, teaching or CNC programming. The software programming panel is as follows:

The main functions of the software programming are as follows:

The main programming points are as follows:

• Maximum axis: 6

• Program verification function

• MDI function

• Absolute/increment programming (G90, G91)

• Programming using inch, metric, pulse number (G20, G21, G22)

• Mirror function (G24, G25)

• Zoom (magnification/demagnification) (G50, G51)

• Automatic, step, manual, home function

• Fast position (G00), linear interpolation (G01)

• Arc interpolation (G02, G03)

• Pause (G04), screw thread function (G33)

• Set/back zero (G29, G30)

• Reverse clearance compensation, beam diameter compensation (G40, G41, G42)

• Coordinate rotation (G68, G69)

• Sub-function

• Static/dynamic emulation

• Max stepping frequency: 200000Hz

• Automatic acceleration/deceleration

• Automatic conversion of PLT and DXF files

Ordering Information

STAC Series CNC Control Boards & Software

1. STAC-MCC3721 Control Boards

The control boards used to control lasers, laser cutting heads, XYZW motion and capacitor height sensor in the cutting heads. STAC-MCC3721H is to control XYZ 3-axis motion and STAC-MCC3721NC is to control XYZW 4-axis motion.

The I/O ports are defined as following table.

2. Laser Cutting Software STAC-SC2000

STAC-SC2000 CNC cutting software is designed for flat fiber laser cutting which includes graphic drawing and editing, cutting process dealing, cutting process controlling, system monitoring, components monitoring and debugging, and so on.

Features:

1) Simple Operations, Powerful Functions.

• Developed based on RIBBON framework, the design is unique and the software is easy to be operated.

• UI design is more humanized, which is easier to use even without training.

• With powerful CAM functions based on AUTOCAD design, support graphic import, graphic drawing, graphic editing, and graphic transformation, graphic optimized and so on.

• Intelligent capturing, which makes drawing more convenient and accurate.

• Unique properties option design, which helps user to design the cutting graphic more easily.

• Support various sort methods, auto sort can recognize the film inside or outside the graphic to make sure the path planning optimized.

• Powerful lead line function, support various ways to lead line, auto added suitable lead line based on graphic nested relations. Support check/revise interfered lead line by one click.

2) Complete cutting process, debugging easily.

• Support all kinds of cutting process: Section drill, gradual drill, multi stages drill, cutting with film, fix height cutting, and predrill and so on.

• Support laser’s power/frequency adjusted with speed, to decrease or avoid the problem of firing corners when cutting carbon steel.

• Support multilayer cutting or marking, and other sorts of processing ways.

• Support micro-joint, gap, over-cutting, bridge, kerf-compensation and so on.

• Powerful material database, which can save all sorts of material cutting process.

• Support complex functions: Edge seeking, fly-cutting and so on.

• Support breakdown position tracking/forward/backward and so on.

3) Rea-time alarm, stable and reliable.

• Support running error measurement, it can check the error between running orbit and graphic error.

• Real-time alarming the status of capacitive height controller, laser source, auxiliary gas of electric laser cutting head and other equipment, make sure the security during cutting.

• More than 50 different kinds of alarms, to secure the equipment in whole aspect, avoid user’s wrong operation.

UI design is very clear, from up to down: title option, tool option, alarm option, view option, running control option, message bar, graphic parameters option, and status bar. The functions of each section shows as below:

Operation flowchart:

A full package consists of a laser cutting head, a control board and cutting software.

The functions of each part is summarized as following: