MACHINING-RELATED INFORMATION GENERATING APPARATUS AND NUMERICAL CONTROLLER HAVING THE SAME

The present invention provides a machining-related information generating apparatus, which speedily and correctly generates tool path data, and automatically generates operation information required for machining. The machining-related information generating apparatus comprises: a process/machining model data generating section (5) which extracts product characteristic data from CAD data, then generates process data, stock blank data and machining model data; a machining-related information generating section (10) which generates tool path data on the basis of the process data, the stock blank data, the machining model data and the like, then generates data of virtual workpiece configurations, and generates machining operation information data on the basis of the process data, the stock blank data, the tool path data and the virtual workpiece configuration data.