Operations for 4-axes and 5-axes milling

The modern milling machines and production centers allows to make the machining using five axes simultaneously. The machines design can be different but the principle of 5-axis machining is as follows: the positional relationship between the part and tool is describes by three linear and two angular dimensions. SprutCAM X can generate the five axis toolpath virtually for any machine configuration. For more information refer to the 5 axis machining topic.

Next are the types of multi-axes machining.

<Indexed five axes milling>. In this case the angular dimensions are fixed in required position at the start of machining. After that the simple three axes milling is performed with using of three linear dimensions.
<Rotary machining with using of the cylindrical interpolation>. Generally, this kind of machining imply the simultaneous motions by the three axes: two linear and one rotary ones. The machining is performed on the cylindrical surface and the machined elements are defined by the unrolled planar curves.
<Continues four-axes milling of the solids of revolution> can be created with using of the existent solid model or unrolled planar curves and < Engrave > or < Pocketing > operation. It is necessary to define the base surface as the cylinder of any solid of revolution. Particularly this way allows to machine the pocket on cylinders.
<Continues five-axes machiningContinues five-axes machining > of the curves and surfaces is performed with using of the 5D contouring operation.
Continues four-axes milling is of the free-form solids and surfaces is performed with using of the < Rotary machining >< Rotary machining >
operation.
<Holes machining> performs the machining of the holes with the free axes direction.