Difference between revisions of "VTube-LASER Bender Corrections"

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You can see the deviation in this part. The transparent yellow tolerance envelopes indicate that the part is outside of the deviation tolerance allowed (in this case 0.039" or 1 mm).

VTube-LASER can send correction data to benders to steer them into the correction motion to make the correct tube shape.

VTube-LASER uses the Bender Setup screen to control the values in up to 100 connected benders.

This screen shows data that is a separate part of VTube memory. The data in this screen is the bender data, both before and after correction, and it is kept unchanged unless changed by the operator.

• The blue columns represent the data at the bender before correction.
  
  
• The orange columns represent the data at the bender after correction.
  
  
• The columns between the blue and orange columns represent the adjustments to the data.

With the right protocol at the bender, VTube-LASER can recall data from the bender, and send both setup and correction data to the bender.

• Operators typically press the "1" button to recall data to be sure the data in the blue columns match the data in the bender.
  
  
• Then they press "2" to send the orange columns to the bender as corrected data.
  
  
• Press "3" to clear the adjustment data after a correction as it should only be used one time.
  
  
• For benders that can't respond to a recall (1 above), they can recalculate the blue columns by clearing and placing the adjustments back into the blue columns automatically.
  
  

VTube-LASER uses a unique correction damping feature for situations were corrections tend to over correct.

We learned the damping algorithm by observing manual corrections in customer applications.

VTube-LASER can also send setup data to the bender for setup.

The software has several choices for controlling how the data is formatted before sending to the bender.