ISO 14649-17:2020

INTERNATIONAL ISO
STANDARD 14649-17
First edition
2020-03
Industrial automation systems and
integration — Physical device control
— Data model for computerized
numerical controllers —
Part 17:
Process data for additive
manufacturing
Systèmes d'automatisation industrielle et intégration — Commande
des dispositifs physiques — Modèle de données pour les contrôleurs
numériques informatisés —
Partie 17: Données de processus pour la fabrication additive
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Contents Page
Foreword .iv
Introduction .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 General process data . 2
4.1 General . 2
4.2 Header and references . 2
4.3 General types and definitions . 2
4.3.1 Measure units . 2
4.4 Additive manufacturing entities . 2
4.4.1 AM workpiece . 2
4.4.2 AM workingstep . 3
4.4.3 AM feature . 3
4.4.4 AM compound feature . 3
4.4.5 AM simple feature . 3
4.4.6 AM gradient feature . 4
4.4.7 AM heterogeneous feature . 6
4.4.8 AM heterogeneous atom . 7
4.4.9 AM machine functions. 7
4.4.10 AM operation . 7
4.4.11 AM twoD operation. 8
4.4.12 AM oneD operation . 8
4.4.13 AM construction . 9
4.4.14 AM solid . 9
4.4.15 AM infill . 9
4.4.16 AM patterns . 9
4.5 End of schema . 9
Annex A (informative) EXPRESS expanded listing .10
Bibliography .12
Foreword
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Introduction
Modern manufacturing enterprises are built from facilities spread around the globe, which contain
equipment from hundreds of different manufacturers. Immense volumes of product information
need to be transferred between the various facilities and machines. Today’s digital communications
standards have solved the problem of reliably transferring information across global networks. For
mechanical parts, the description of product data has been standardized by ISO 10303. This leads
to the possibility of using standard data throughout the entire process chain in the manufacturing
enterprise. Impediments to realising this principle are the data formats used at the machine level. Most
computer numerical control (CNC) machines are programmed in the ISO 6983 “G and M code” language.
Programmes are typically generated by computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) systems that use
computer-aided design (CAD) information. However, ISO 6983 limits programme portability for three
reasons. Firstly, the language focuses on programming the tool centre path with respect to machine
axes, rather than the machining process with respect to the part. Secondly, ISO 6983 defines the syntax
of programme statements, but in most cases leaves the semantics ambiguous. Thirdly, vendors usually
supplement the language with extensions that are not covered in the limited scope of ISO 6983.
ISO 14649 is a new model of data transfer between CAD/CAM systems and CNC machines, which replaces
ISO 6983. It remedies the shortcomings of ISO 6983 by specifying machining processes rather than
machine tool motion, using the object-oriented concept of workingsteps. Workingsteps correspond to
high-level machining features and associated process parameters. CNCs are responsible for translating
workingsteps to axis motion and tool operation. A major benefit of ISO 14649 is its use of existing data
models from ISO 10303. As ISO 14649 provides a comprehensive model of the manufacturing process, it
can also be used as the basis for a bi- and multi-directional data exchange between all other information
technology systems.
ISO 14649 represents an object-oriented, information- and context-preserving approach for NC-
programming that supersedes data reduction to simple switching instructions or linear and circular
movements. As it is object- and feature-oriented and describes the machining operations executed
on the workpiece, and not machine-dependent axis motions, it will be running on different machine
tools or controllers. This compatibility will spare all data adaptations by postprocessors, if the new
data model is correctly implemented on the NC-controllers. If old NC programmes in ISO 6983 are to
be used on such controllers, the corresponding interpreters need to be able to process the different NC
programme types in parallel.
A gradual evolution is envisioned from ISO 6983 programming to portable feature-based programming.
Early adopters of ISO 14649 will certainly support data input of legacy “G and M codes” manually or
through programmes, just as modern controllers support both command-line interfaces and graphical
user interfaces. This will likely be made easier as open-architecture controllers become more
prevalent. ISO 14649 does not include legacy programme statements, which would otherwise dilute its
effectiveness.
This document extends the suite of processes covered by ISO 14649 for physical device control. The data
model focuses on device control and expression of requirements for the results of the additive process
rather than technology specific constructs. For the shape of the manufactured part, ISO 14649 takes the
exact geometry to be made and avoids the necessity of the user having to decide on an approximation
without necessarily knowing the precision and details of the process. The exact geometry is also
important when additive manufacturing is used together with other processes in order to avoid having
multiple representations of the same shape.
This document differentiates between explicit data and derived data. Support structures, for example,
depend on the shape and process and need to be derived when the process and the machine are
chosen in order to achieve maximum flexibility. The workingstep structure is sufficiently flexible to
allow support structures to be added explicitly, if they are required. Assemblies can be described with
different elements, with different materials, in different workingsteps. Additive manufacturing can be
sequential or parallel and there is the possibility to define explicit parallel features.
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 14649-17:2020(E)
Industrial automation systems and integration — Physical
device control — Data model for computerized numerical
controllers —
Part 17:
Process data for additive manufacturing
1 Scope
This document specifies the process data for additive manufacturing. This document describes additive
manufacturing at the micro process plan level without making a commitment to particular machines,
processes or technologies.
2 Normative references
The followin
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