Path control
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Continuous Path Control: Term from numerical control technology (NC, CNC technology).
Path controls in machine tools can drive two or more axes in functional dependence so that the relative movement proceeds with constant speed along a programmed, flat or spatial curve of any shape between tool and workpiece.
Such machining problems are typical of flame-cutting equipment, profile rotatable and profile milling machines, contour milling machines, electrical discharge machines, sheet material cutting machines and drafting machines as well as in industrial robots and many other comparable facilities.
