Mill machining

Application area:

Mill machining provides operations for removing material and finishing part surfaces with a rotating cutting tool. Operations are organized into groups matching the operation selection window.

Operation groups:

  • Holes. Provides operations for machining holes and generating machining processes from recognized manufacturing features. Details

  • 2D. Contains operations for machining pockets, engraving, and following planar contours. The operation topics describe the geometry and parameters required to generate each toolpath. Details

  • Basic. Contains face milling, waterline and plane machining, contouring, and flat-area finishing operations. These topics describe the common milling strategies and their operation settings. Details

  • Advanced. Contains operations for surface finishing, undercut machining, multi-axis roughing, and machining spatial contours. The individual topics describe the available toolpath strategies and tool orientation settings. Details

  • Rotary. Contains operations that use a rotary axis for machining surfaces and contours. The topics cover rotary roughing and finishing, waterline machining, morphing, surfacing, and contouring. Details

  • Turbomachinery Milling. Contains specialized operations for machining impellers and individual blades. The operation topics describe the required blade and hub geometry, machining strategies, and toolpath settings. Details

  • Rest machining. Contains corners cleanup, pencil, and chamfering operations. Details

Operation setup:

Common operation settings and topics covering machining with different numbers of axes are described in Operations setup. Details