Five-Axis

Five-Axis

Five-Axis Mill Features Linear Motor Technology

The HSM 400U LP high speed milling machine from AgieCharmilles is designed to provide simultaneous five-axis, high speed machining and deliver powerful performance and precision.

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Probe Has Right Touch for Five-Axis Aerospace Parts

On-machine measurement is critical at this aerospace manufacturer, which needs to ensure that features of already high-value parts are within specification before performing additional operations. With the RMP600 strain-gage probe from Renishaw, the company has eliminated the delays that come with measuring on a true CMM.

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One Way to Machine Long Titanium Parts

This horizontal machining center design not only addresses the need for larger machining capacity for long aerospace components, but it also offers impressive material removal rates for tough titanium alloys.

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CAM Features Facilitate Five-Axis “Hog-Outs”

A point of pride for this shop is its ability to take on projects others wouldn’t touch. Recently, capabilities within Mastercam CAM software enabled the company to overcome challenges with a difficult aerospace component and, more significantly, to bring in new, similar work.

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Automation

Five-Axis Machining Center for Dental Applications, Operated by Apple iPad

Datron Dynamics Inc. says the company’s D5 Dental Mill is a 5-axis, high-speed machining center designed for dental milling applications including crowns, bridges, abutments, inlays, onlays, telescopes, implants, bar work and even models.  A rigid cast iron construction houses a fully-integrated 5-axis automation system built to hold up to eight material blanks or “pucks” frequently used by dental labs.  This integrated eight-piece handling system loads and unloads blanks for unattended operation.

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Medical

Video of a Really Cool Bar (-Fed Machining Center)

See a five-axis, bar-fed machining center creating a complex sample part complete from barstock.

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Aerospace

Composites Machining for the F-35

Lockheed Martin’s precision machining of composite skin sections for the F-35 provides part of the reason why this plane saves money for U.S. taxpayers. That machining makes the plane compelling in ways that have led other countries to take up some of the cost. Here is a look at a high-value, highly engineered machining process for the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft.

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Die/Mold

Find Your Speed Outside of Machining

This short-lead-time mold shop achieves its most significant time savings by looking outside the machining cycle. However, one of those elements outside the cycle—palletized setup—ultimately led to cycle time savings via five-axis machining.

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Video: Two-Spindle Machine Turns and Mills Turbo Housings

This five-axis, two-spindle machining center shows how multitasking machines can be used for production applications.

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Holemaking

Advanced CNC Milling and Drilling Quiz

A provider of machine shop training offers these questions for benchmarking metalworking knowledge.

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