CamSoft is now
offering a Lite version of our PC-Based CNC Machine Tool Controller Software.
CNC Lite
offers an ideal,
low-cost CNC controller for the entry-level user with an excellent upgrade path. Ready for
use on Mills, Lathes, Routers, Water Jets, Flame Cutters, Lasers & EDMs. Can be
configured for 2 through 8 axes for any machine type. No physical PLCs, ladder logic, C or
VB programming is necessary. Plus,
for applications requiring added features there is also
CNC Plus. This is a bonus pac optional add on
for CNC Lite which adds extra functionality.
Developing an operator interface is easy with CNC Lite because CNC Lite contains a wide
variety of graphical tools already developed for the user to drag and drop into place.
Standard Features
Includes:
 | Unlimited program size |
| Configurable operator screen |
| Extremely fast block processing time |
| No physical PLC or Ladder Logic necessary |
| ActiveX and DLL source code |
| Mix and match virtual controls with physical hardware |
| Easy to install – no C or VB programming necessary |
| Convenient setup program that saves a single, emailable file containing your entire
screen design and default system parameter values |
| Numerous ready-to-go bitmapped images |
| 40,000 word speech vocabulary |
| Configurable G and M codes |
| Password protection |
| Definable buttons and icons |
| Graphical toggle switches, indicator lights, multi-function knobs and numeric displays |
| Photo-realistic tool library containing 120 tools |
| Interactive diagnostic watch windows for all digital I/O, analog, voltages, position
error and axis positions |
| Standard automatic servo tuning software |
| Visual icon driven logic editor or text editor |
| Emergency stop button |
| Automatic machine maintenance reminders |
| Remote machine monitoring |
| Feed pot & speed pot |
| One-year maintenance/support |
| Standard canned cycles for drilling, pecking, boring and tapping |
| Detailed printed and on-line, multimedia-based documentation |
| Hand wheel or pulse wheel device access |
| Add math calculations and variables inside your G code program |
| Absolute, Incremental, Distance yet to go readouts |
| Point and click Mid-program start feature |
| Lock Axes, Inputs, M codes |
| Decelerated stops when you want them |
| Feed hold |
| Optional high-speed rigid tapping and lathe threading |
| Exact stop checking and smoothing |
| Set up a master and slave axis union |
| Network compatible |
| Inch and millimeter mode |
| Seamless marriage of our CAD/CAM system and motion |
| Calculate elapsed idle, spindle and job running times |
| Part counter |
| Teach or digitize |
| Tool Life management |
| Numerous ready-to-go bitmapped images |
| PCI or ISA bus interface |
| Controls servo motors, stepper motors and hydraulics |
| 62.5 microsecond per axis servo update rate |
| Feed rates up to 122,000 IPM, far faster than today’s servo technology |
| Sophisticated PID filter with velocity and acceleration
feed forward for optimum speed
and precision |
| Error handling includes axes limits, automatic position error shut-off, amplifier enable
and watchdog timer |
| Optional sinusoidal commutation for FANUC type brushless motors |
| Labeled and silk screened optically isolated interconnect module and cables to connect
the computer to the machine |
| 22-40 solid state digital I/O depending on the number of axes |
| Extra digital I/O cards available in groups of 24, 32, 48, 120 and 144 I/O |
| Extra axes are available up to 8 |
