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While conventional CNC controlled tool-machines use linear interpolation for the geometry description, modern CNC-machines can directly deal with spline data. By converting the piecewise linear path description to a B-spline representation, the amount of data can be reduced considerably. An enormous speedup in the milling process is the consequence.
We describe design and implementation of the spline translator reduce which has been developed jointly with Siemens Industrial Automation in the context of the SINUMERIK 840D control unit. A series of real data examples demonstrates the efficiency of the method.
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Weiß, V., Seidel, HP., Greiner, G., Puchtler, T., Eberlein, W. (1997). Optimizing CNC Programs Using Spline Techniques. In: Strasser, W., Klein, R., Rau, R. (eds) Geometric Modeling: Theory and Practice. Focus on Computer Graphics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60607-6_6
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