Paper:
Development of Tool Fabrication CAD/CAM for Conicoid End Mill
Koichi Morishige*, Shingo Ishizuka**, and Yoshimi Takeuchi***
*Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, The University of Electro-Communications
1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
**Systems Development Department No.1 of Digital Process Ltd.
Atsugi-Aida Bldg, 2-9-6 Nakacho, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0018, Japan
***Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University
2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
This study deals with new practical fabrication of end mills based on 3D-CAD/CAM. End mills with arbitrary shapes generally difficult to produce are useful in upgrading machining accuracy and efficiency. Our tool fabrication CAD/CAM potentially produces end mills with arbitrarily shaped cutting edge. In order to make them practical, we developed a way to design the cutting edge shape and NC data generation for a 5-axis controlled tool grinding machine. The resulting system enables produces practical, arbitrarily shaped end mills with shape precision comparable to their commercially available counterparts.