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Chongqing University: a 'zero-programming' PMAC CNC system for tufting machines (2011)

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Made by: Ye Suping (叶苏平); Li Guolong (李国龙)
Date: 31 Aug 2011
Place: Chongqing University, Institute of Manufacturing Engineering
Held by: Chongqing University
Themes: Tools & equipment, Global diffusion of tufting

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Paper 《基于PMAC的簇绒机零编程数控系统研究》 ('Research on a zero-programming CNC system for tufting machines based on PMAC'). It uses a PC+NC structure built round a PMAC multi-axis motion controller. Patterns are drawn in AutoCAD, a customised CAD/CAM layer extracts contour points and generates NC code automatically, and Visual C++ software talks to the PMAC through the PComm32 library to tuft complex rug designs. It shows Chinese universities building CNC control for tufting between the first robot-gun patents and the 2014 Shenyang/Yiwu patent (pat-cn104562491a). Only a metadata page on the Sciencepaper Online (paper.edu.cn) platform was seen; the full text was not read. Whether the machine is a single gun head or a broadloom machine is not stated. Sources: https://highlights.paper.edu.cn/index/paper_detail/4287 Research note (Oct 2026): from search results; pages not opened. Link note (Oct 2026): the page does not answer from outside China. The link is now the Internet Archive's copy of 11 Apr 2021; the original address was https://highlights.paper.edu.cn/index/paper_detail/4287.