Who are they aimed at?
CNC applications, with interpolated movements, for lathes and milling machines. MC applications with synchronized axes. Integrated applications between robots, machine tools, and other accessory synchronized operations.
Advantages
Better price scalability based on volumes because the hardware component is minimized. Excellent performance that continues to improve thanks to the evolution of PCs.
Why choose them
The best product for a high-performance CNC that hosts the operator interface or CAM onboard the machine. The Costantino represents the culmination of more than 50 years of experience in the development of CNC products. Constantly updated and improved, it maximizes application performance.
Costantino is a softCNC compatible with the multicore PC, industrial grade or not. All its critical operations are performed in a real-time operating system which has exclusive access to some PC resources, namely one or more processor cores, a portion of RAM, and an Ethernet port. The Windows operating system uses the remaining resources to host the operator interface and the on-board program system, so the application does not require additional hardware. Costantino maintains a clear separation between the two environments, so any Windows state cannot alter real-time performance.
Costantino communicates via EtherCAT with I/O modules, servos, and gateway that connect the EtherCAT network to other networks such as Yaskawa Mechatrolink, IO-Link, and CANopen, or to devices that provide analog and pulse/direction interfaces for traditional drives. It manages resources via an EtherCAT configurator integrated with the hardware resource manager and the automation logic editor.
Costantino has a programmable PLC environment IEC61131, you can develop PLC logic with one of 5 standard languages: ST, LD, FBD, SCD, IL, or in C.
Costantino runs a motion g-code program (ISO6983) and has many features for adapting interpretation and interpolation based on your needs. It offers your application powerful and easy-to-use features:
- With 25,000 blocks per second and more than 200 lookahead blocks, is one of the fastest CNCs on the market. Costantino takes full advantage of the performance of modern processors and can dedicate exclusive resources to channels that require particularly high performance.
- Algorithms of suppression of mechanical resonances, compensation of tracking error, correction of mechanical aberrations and other tools to improve the quality of movement;
- Control of up to 12 axes per channel and up to 8 channels, or part-program running at the same time;
- Interpolation with respect to the Jerk on the axes and on the tip of the tool for improve the finishing quality.
- Interpolation via high-speed algorithms to reduce processing times, maintain a constant processing speed and reduce mechanical vibrations.
- Execution of the work in 3-axis, 4-axis, 5-axis with tool orientation; a refined function TCP allows you to manage five-degree-of-freedom kinematics.
- Control of any ROBOT kinematics up to 6 degrees of freedom.
Costantino includes Motion Control functionality with PLC logic interface compatible with the standard PLCopen MC Part 1, for applications requiring synchronized movements between axes:
- Motion cams based on axis position or time
- Axis movements via time constraints of position, velocity or acceleration
- Speed coupling between axes.
- Cut on the fly.
- Rephasing of synchronized axes position.
All these features can interact with the others used in the CNC, to create complex applications and to achieve maximum adaptability.
Costantino has numerous libraries of complete applications which you can use as is or as basis for further developments and customizations.
You can find examples of this on the pages of experiences.
Costantino integrates seamlessly with SIMON, ISAC's digital twin, for faithful simulation of the application before running it on the machine.
