Wholly smoothing cutter orientations for five-axis NC machining based on cutter contact point mesh

Science China Technological Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1294-1303

  Bi, Qing Zhen ^a   Wang, Yu Han ^a   Zhu, Li Min ^a   Ding, Han ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Accessibility cone; Cutter orientation; Five axis machining; Tool path

Indexed keywords

CUTTING; EFFICIENCY; MACHINE TOOLS;

BALL-END CUTTER; COMPUTATION EFFICIENCY; CUTTING EXPERIMENT; FIVE-AXIS MACHINING; FIVE-AXIS NC MACHINING; MACHINING EFFICIENCY; MODEL AND ALGORITHMS; TOOLPATHS;

MESH GENERATION;

EID: 77953622480     PISSN: 16747321     EISSN: 18691900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11431-010-0064-x     Document Type: Article

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