Apr 1, 2003 · The rolling ball method rolls a variable radius ball along the tool path and positions the cutting tool to cut the rolling ball. A small region ...

The first step is to position the tool on a sphere of the rolling ball radius. The axis of the tool lies along the z-axis, which passes through the centre of ...

Rolling ball method applied to 3½½-axis machining for tool orientation and positioning and path planning · Engineering · 2015.

A pseudo-radius is computed for each grid point and the most appropriate radius is selected to be the rolling ball's radius. The selection process follows a ...

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The purpose of 5-axis surface machining is to match the tool's cutting surface as closely as possible to the model surface so as to cut as wide a strip as ...

In this paper, five-axis milling experiments were carried out on 17-4PH stainless steel using a carbide ball end mill. The influence of tool orientation on the ...

Dec 11, 2015 · The rolling ball method, originally developed for 5-axis machining, considers the regional characteristics of tool positioning. This work ...

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The experimental 5-axis machining using the resulting tool paths demonstrates that the designed algorithms are capable of producing collision- and gouge- free ...