Camera Inside Cnc Machine

The cameras inside the machines are attached to small plates bolted to the sheetmetal.

Camera inside cnc machine.

One inside each of the three machine enclosures and one mounted on a wall overhead for a view of the shop area. Every time we try to film in a cnc machine we always end up covering the lens in coolant. Allows remote viewing via wifi. Fully enclosed in a high quality cnc machined housing the camera is completely protected from chips and coolant to ensure reliable long term operation.

Constantly stopping the machine to wipe off the lens was getting annoying so we designed an air knife that allows us to clean off the lens from outside the machine. All of these will be aided by using the camera viewer function built into mach3 a popular cnc machine control software application offered by newfangled solutions and a free mach3 camera plugin by klaus dietz that adds crosshairs and other reference features to the camera view screen. Log on to the cnc and check for machine alarms or other. We got this idea from an excellent series of videos on the edge precision youtube channel.

The video camera in each vmc is mounted to a sidewall of the machine enclosure. Lots of camera options are available on the market so ensuring that an operator has the right camera for any given application can be a challenge.