Abstract
Current computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) systems generate cutter contact points (CC points), cutter location points (CL points) and cutter orientation angles (CO angles) based only on the sculptured surface geometry. However, under certain situations, the cutting errors of 5-axis NC machines are larger than expected using these CC, CL and CO data. It is shown in this paper that the cutting error depends on the structures of 5-axis NC machines as well as the surface geometry. A new algorithm has been developed to estimate the cutting error and calculate the maximum allowable step length for spindle-tilting type 5-axis NC machines. Simulation results show that the new algorithm provides better estimation on the cutting errors for spindle-tilting type 5-axis NC machines.
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