Analytical Boundary Method for Obtaining Feed Scallop of Toroidal Cutter in Multi-Axis Milling

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This paper presents a new method to calculate the feed scallop height for a toroidal cutter during a free-form surface machining in multi-axis milling. The proposed method is an extended analytical boundary method to define the cut geometry during a free-form surface milling. The algorithm was developed by taken into account the existence of inclination angle. The proposed method was successfully implemented to calculate the scallop for two model parts with different surface profiles. The accuracy was verified by comparing the scallop height calculated using the proposed method with those measured using Siemens-NX. The results proved that the proposed method was accurate

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