Top HEIDENHAIN CNC Control Now Offers New Probing Cycle Option for 3D Shapes
HEIDENHAIN’s popular TNC 640 mill-turn control is now available with an exciting new option, a 3D Probing cycle, called Cycle 444. Already equipped with both manual and automatic probing cycles for datum setting, workpiece alignment and inspection, the TNC 640 offers this additional 3D probing cycle to meet manufacturers’ increased requirements for automation and advanced probing routines that inspect free form surfaces where measurement positions are often difficult to capture. Cycle 444 checks one specific point on the surface of each workpiece. The contact point is determined by a