Cutting Path Planning for Ruled Surface Impellers
At present, most commercial computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) systems are deficient in efficiency and performances on generating tool path during machining impellers. To solve the problem, this article develops a special software to plan cutting path for ruled surface impellers. An approximation algorithm to generate cutting path for machining integral ruled surface impellers is proposed. By fitting sampling data points of an impeller blade into a curve, a model of ruled surface blade of an impeller is built up. Furthermore, by calculating the points where the cutter axis vector intersects the flee-form hub surface of an impeller, problems about, for instance, the ambiguity in calculation and machining the wide blade surface with a short flute cutter are solved. Finally, an integral impeller cutting path is planned by way of an integrated cutter location control algorithm. Simulation and machining tests with an impeller are performed on a 5-axis computer numerically controlled (CNC) mill machine, which shows the feasibility of the proposed algorithm.
作 者： Liang Quan Wang Yongzhang Fu Hongya Han Zhenyu 作者单位： School of Mechatronics Engineering,Harbin Institute of Technology,Harbin,150001,China 刊 名： 中国航空学报(英文版) ISTIC 英文刊名： CHINESE JOURNAL OF AERONAUTICS 年，卷(期)： 2008 21(5) 分类号： V2 关键词： CAM cutting path planning flank cutting impeller ruled surface