5-Axis Roughing and Contouring
Length: 17 min Speaker: Mark Larson
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Two key benefits of Makino’s ADVANTiGE™ titanium machining technologies are capabilities to improve the typical roughing process through 5-axis roughing—often to the point where the semi-finish process can be eliminated—and to improve the typical finishing process through 5-axis contouring.
This presentation describes the theory, practices and processes behind ADVANTiGE 5-axis roughing and contouring. It shows, through both simulations and live-action demonstrations of sample applications, how 5-axis roughing produces a near net shape faster than conventional roughing and semi-finishing, and how 5-axis contouring (including one-shot wall finishing, high-speed surface cutting, high-feed floor finishing and finishing with long-reach tooling) can be applied to titanium parts.