Abstract
This paper proposes a method for calculating the tilt angle of the tool and the machining strip width when the tool is inclined to the feed direction. Tilt angle of the tool and machining strip width are important factors which affect feed rate and machining quality in five-axis flat-end milling for free surface. There are some methods to calculate the tilt angle of the tool in five-axis flat-end milling for free surface, but mathematically complicated algorithm is applied to the calculation of tilt angle of the tool, so it is difficult to apply it in practice. We considered the geometry of the surface and the tool as well as the scallop height to determine the tool tilt angle, thus ensuring the tool to be contacted with the surface at two points. This allows us to calculate the tool tilt angle and the machining strip width by solving quadric equations based on the contact circle. Moreover, tool tilt angle and machining strip width are calculated analytically. Thus the speed of calculation is quick and easy to implement. An experiment of machining on the biquantic B-spline surface was performed and the results show that the proposed method has considerably higher machining efficiency than the CMM.
Highlights
5-axis machining tools are widely used for sculptured object machining in aircrafts, automobiles, molds, dies, etc
We proposed simple method for calculating the tool tilt angle and the machining strip width when the tool is inclined to the feed direction in order to maximize the machining strip widthinflat-end cutter fiveaxis surface machining
This paper proposed a method to calculate the tool tilt angle and the machining strip width based on the predefined scallop height in machining where the tool contacts with the surface at two points
Summary
5-axis machining tools are widely used for sculptured object machining in aircrafts, automobiles, molds, dies, etc. Gyong Wal Janget al.: A Tool Tilt Angle Calculation Method in 5-axis Flat-end Milling for Free Surface Machining Otherwise, if it is too low, the tool may gouge the designed surface. Most of current methods evaluate the machining strip width and implement a tool orientation optimization by finding two intersection points between the effective cutting profile of a flat-end cutter and the offset surface profile which represents machined surface. Leeproposed a non-isoparametric tool path generation method, which feasibly evaluates the machining strip width in flat-end cutter 5-axis surface machining. In this method, the disjointed segments of non-parametric offset path should be connected for smooth tool movements. The fixed tilt angle of tool was used in his experiments [6]
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