PROCESS UNIFICATION AND FRAME PREPARATION OF MACHINING PARAMETRES FOR ROTATIONAL PARTS

Abstract

Any traditional or computerized metal removal process needs a prototype, a technical drawing and a database for production of a part. Design, process planning and manufacturing problems such as modeling, the necessity data extraction from standard data exchange formats, and part programme preparation for machine tools can be solved by the operators or experts as soon as possible while they occurred in the traditonal approach. In circumstances of the production efforts spent by the computer, all experiences of expert can be saved in a database for foresight of the possible problems. This data can be used at any stage in the product cycle. In this paper, it is presented the results of research efforts which aimed to extract information from the defacto industry standard DXF files to determine features existing on rotational parts to be machined on horizontal machining centers. After process extraction and definition, process unifications and frame preparation for machining parameters of the part are introduced