HELICAL INTERPOLATION

DRILLING - IRREGULAR WORK SURFACES

The example below shows a hole-making operation in a workpiece with irregular surface and weak set-up. When using a drill body, until the full engagement is achieved, the operation is unbalanced causing vibrations, demanding a large feed rate reduction, with high risk of insert breakage. It can reduce the productivity in some cases.

Irregular surfaces / Unbalanced operation Full engagement area

HELICAL MILLING - CUTTING DIRECTION

To maximize performance, the Helical Milling strategy must be applied with the correct cutting direction. For holemaking operations such as drilling and boring, CCLW is recommended for climb milling to keep the chip formation from thick to thin.

ØD ØC

Counterclockwise D = Milling Cutter Diameter direction (CCLW) C = Hole Diameter

HELICAL MILLING - FEED RATE COMPENSATION

For Helical Milling, we need to compensate the feed rate, to keep the chip thickness like the same when performing a Linear Milling operation.

HELICAL MILLING - IRREGULAR WORK SURFACES

In this case, the helical milling machine strategy is the best option because it has: LINEAR MILLING CIRCULAR MILLING 1. Good chip control and evacuation P 2. Better surface quality and dimensional tolerances ØD

3. Lower power consumption and vibration tendencies = more machining stability Vf ØC

linear Vf circular D1

D

Vf=fzxRPMxZVf= ((C-D)/C) x Vf
Clinearcircularlinear
D = 16RPM = 3600 rev/minFeed Rate Compensation

C = 30 fz = 0.05 mm/tooth Z = 4 ((C-D/C) * Linear feed Rate Vf ((30-16)/30)*720mm/min = 720 mm/min

linear (14/30)*720mm/min Climb Milling 0.466*720mm/min = 366 mm/min