Machining titanium medical components
13 May
5-axis machining technology

Comparison of 5-axis and 3-axis milling

Milling can obtain a good curved approximate surface. When using a ball-end tool for three-axis milling, the linear feed motion in the x, y, and z directions can ensure that the tool cuts to any coordinate point on the workpiece, but the direction of the tool axis cannot be changed. The actual cutting speed of the point on the tool axis is zero, and the chip space in the center of the tool is also very small. If these points are involved in cutting, the unfavorable cutting conditions will cause the quality of the machined surface to decrease, the blade wear will increase, and the machining time will be prolonged. So that high-grade tool materials are not fully utilized.

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5-axis milling stainless steel
13 May
5-axis machining technology

Five-axis milling technology for short tools

In order to overcome the shortcomings of 3+2 axis machining, five-axis simultaneous machining may be a better choice, not to mention that some five-axis machine tools also have some functions specially designed for the mold industry. Five-axis linkage machining can coordinate three linear axes and two rotary axes to make them move at the same time, which solves all the problems of 3-axis and 3+2 axis machining. The tool can be very short, there is no overlapping of views, the possibility of missing the processing area is less, and the processing can be performed continuously without additional import and export (see Figure 3).

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5 axis milling of turbine impeller
11 May
5-axis machining technology

5 axis milling machining of turbine impeller

Before adopting 5-axis CNC machining centers, most turbomachinery manufacturers used 3-axis or 4-axis machine tools to process impellers, and most of them used point machining. That is, every point on the blade surface is processed into a point by the tool tip. When the tool moves along the surface of the blade, it will leave some pits or residual sharp corners, and the height of these pits or sharp corners depends on the programming skills. Point processing is also a feasible method, but this method has some unavoidable disadvantages:

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Difficulties in CNC machining of large impeller blades
11 May
5-axis machining technology, milling technology

Difficulties in milling large blades of impellers

In the CNC machining of the impeller blades, the machining of large impeller blades is the most difficult. Mastering the measures to solve the processing difficulties of large blades has a very positive effect not only on the large blade itself, but also on the impeller moving blades, impeller stationary blades, guide impeller blades and impeller end blades.

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5-axis Machining Services
11 May
5-axis machining technology, Prototype technology

3-axis and 5-axis drilling technology for aluminum parts

CNC machining holes in the solid part of the workpiece with a drill is called drilling. The drilling is rough machining, the achievable dimensional tolerance grade is IT13~IT11, and the surface roughness value is Ra50~12.5μm. Due to the long length of the twist drill, the small core diameter and poor rigidity, as well as the influence of the chisel edge, the drilling has the following technological characteristics:

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Prevent tool interference in 5-axis milling
11 May
5-axis machining technology, milling technology

Tool interference prevention for 5 axis milling

With the increase in the design of multi-faceted and complex curved parts, 5-axis machining will account for an increasing proportion of CNC machining. Because 5-axis CNC machining adds two degrees of freedom of rotation, it increases the difficulty of CNC machining motion simulation calculation and tool interference checking, especially when machining parts with extremely complex shapes.

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