Dynapath's 2000 Series Controls

DynaPath® Delta

DynaPath has developed a new generation of Delta Series CNCs. These new DynaPath® Delta M and T Series controls take CNC to a whole new level, blending the best from the exponentially advancing PC hardwarere arena with the industrial hardening and transparent software sophistication that have made Delta controls the CNC of choice of machine operators, shop owners, and production managers.

The new Delta 2000 is powerful, dependable, and easily configurable to control the full range of milling and turning platforms, from the simplest mills and lathes through the most complex and demanding metal cutting machines. And DynaPath fully protects you with designs that provide the fastest, easiest, and most cost-effective on-site upgrades in the industry.

The new Delta 2000 Series CNC empowers the machine operator. Whether he programs parts or not, the operator is the person closest to the machine. DynaPath provides him with the tools to do his job—that is, make parts—faster and better.

Interactive screens with software-defined soft keys eliminate the need for most of the annoying and often confusing switches found on many machine operator’s panels. Through its Plain English Mode Select Menu, all of the new Delta capabilities are instantly accessed; a single keystroke returns the operator to that menu regardless of the control capability being used.

From initial setup, there’s a screen to walk the operator through the most difficult tasks, and a host of built-in automated and user-defined cycles to speed up those tasks. For example, even touch-triggered probing of part location, tool setting, and compensations has its own screen to verify the operation. Screens walk the operator through entry of either absolute or incremental compensations with inch or metric values displayed. Or, by simply touching off the part with the tool, the compensation can be automatically calibrated. Loading all the information needed to make a part is simplified on the Delta control. Part programs and tool tables from a host computer are loaded to the hard disk through the RS-232 at up to 38,400 baud, or via an AT compatible floppy disk. The operator can run extremely long programs with buffered input from the hard drive.

Verifying information is simplified through Seven-View Graphics, displaying all three planes plus an isometric and blueprint view. Additionally, high-resolution interpolated graphics can verify a part program by actually measuring critical dimensions on the screen with the movable cursors and simulating individual operations or the entire job in real time before any tools touch the workpiece.

All of which means your operators have the power at their fingertips to easily optimize operations and spend more time cutting parts and less time searching for answers.

Delta controls are equally at home in the conversational programming mode, or in the conventional G-Code mode. For example, when programming at the machine, DynaPath’s menu-driven conversational programming leads less-experienced personnel through part program generation, step by step. Or conventional EIA/ISO G-Code programming can be used for standardization. And when you enter data at the machine, you’ll appreciate the simplicity and ease of the positive alphanumeric keyboard with LCD defined soft keys.

At the CAM terminal, you can take advantage of a host of unique Delta capabilities including incrementally entered, positive, and negative tool diameter compensations for cutting your parts with oversize or undersize tools

DynaPath has also introduced an advanced tool to simplify compensation turn-on, especially in tight quarters. Incorporating both vector and right angle turn-on coupled with powerful look-through capabilities for Position events, Z-axis plunges, Repeats, and Subroutines, you know what you program is what you get.

DynaPath’s Conversational Graphics for Program mode further reduces part programming effort by interactively displaying graphical diagrams of conversational events and EIA-lSO blocks. Since the graphics are bitmapped pictures, custom macros can be easily created with commercial drawing packages and automatically displayed when the macro ID is entered.

Or, for your most demanding and complex patterns and contour shapes, choose DynaPath’s 3D Touch Trigger Probe Digitizing System for reverse engineering and part program generation.

AUTOCONN has been earning the trust of metal-cutting professionals since we shipped the world’s first commercial numerical controls, and we’ve been a pioneer of practically every advancement in the industry since. We have focused our technology on the metalworking industries, and as such, have lived with machine tool builders, retrofitters and you, their customers. We understand your challenges, your problems, and your requirements.