Manufacturing on CNC wood engraving machines with MACH 3 and Vectrics Aspire 8.5

Abstract

Nowadays, Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machining has become the key
technology in the modern manufacturing. However, current manufacturing
facilities do not fully exploit the technological capabilities of this technology.
The main reason is the programmability, which means that the control of CNC
machines is manually programmed without using any software supports. In this
regard, applying CAD/CAM software on the CNC machining is the most
widely used method in the modernization of the mechanical industry. On this
subject, research for the scalable functionality of existing CAD or CAD/CAM
software in connection with other ones to enable to create an automatic and
industrial design environment has been an increasing interest. In this paper, we
introduce a novel combination between Vectrics Aspire 8.5 and Mach3 to
control the machining on CNC wood engraving machines. The obtained results
include programmation and exportation of codes on the Vectrics Aspire 8.5
software, setting-up of the Mach3 software interface, and data transfer from the
Mach 3 software to the CNC machine for machining.