Acu-Rite DRO Technology Puts Value-For-Money In Everyone's View

The new-to-the-UK Acu-Rite VUE one- to three-axis digital readout is an easy-to-use and cost-effective entry-level DRO system that can transform the performance and operation of manual milling, turning and grinding machines.

Displaying full text on a LCD display and with impressive software functionality as standard, the system's credentials for market acceptance are further enhanced by its availability as a ready-to-use package with high-end SENC 150 precision glass linear encoders.

VUE's standard functionality embraces, for example, job clock, feed rate display, absolute/incremental, near-zero warning, 16 tool offsets/diameters, preset and zero reset, Trig calculator and instant inch/mm conversion in addition to content-sensitive help function.

Specific functions for milling include graphically-supported bolt hole pattern calculations (full and partial circles/linear patterns) and centreline calculation, while for turning the system also features ‘lock axis' functionality (establish tool offsets under load), and instant radius and diameter compensation.

Linear and non-linear error compensation is quoted as up to +/- 9.999 ppm.

As well as being supplied complete with all appropriate armoured cabling, the Acu-Rite VUE's cost-to-performance tag is reinforced by Acu-Rite's SENC 150 precision glass scale technology. Based on the use of reflective (rather than that transmittive) light for measurement and a reader head mounted on its top face, this highly durable scale features advanced roller bearing technology for reduced backlash and greater scale travel life.

The result is a high-precision scale - resolutions are 0.5, one and five microns – that is highly resistant to machine inaccuracies and vibration.

SENC 150 is available in lengths of 50 mm to 3.4 m and it features Acu-Rite's exclusive Position-Trac functionality that allows operators to accurately and quickly re-establish workpiece zero from any position after a power interruption. Once power is restored, the DRO reads a line pattern on the glass scale to recall the last known zero.

SOURCE: Wildish Communications Ltd