40th International Conference on Production Engineering of Serbia
ICPES 2025
Nis, Serbia, 18-19th september 2025
CNC SIMULATOR BASED ON LINUXCNC CONTROL AND PROGRAMMING SYSTEM
Goran Vasilic, Milan Milutinovic, Saša Živanovic, Zoran Dimic
DOI: 10.46793/ICPES25.307V
This work presents a CNC simulator that was created based on the need to design and form a working environment within which training of operators and programmers of CNC machines will be carried out in an economically profitable way. The CNC simulator is based on a Raspberry PI 5 microcomputer and LinuxCNC open-source software system intended for control and programming of CNC machines and industrial robots. The LinuxCNC software system was configured according to the set requirements and current needs. With the control system configured in this way, two working environments were formed that are currently used in the realization of laboratory exercises of the teaching process of the higher education institution. In the framework of the paper, the created working environments are described, and in the conclusion, the observations obtained by analyzing the results achieved using the CNC simulator are presented
LinuxCNC, Raspberry PI, CNC machine programming, Virtual CNC machine, Complex CNC machine
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