Milling force prediction case study for non-standard geometry endmill using structured light scanning

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A structured light scanner was used to generate a 3D model of the endmill. The scanning proceeded by first preparing the solid carbide endmill surface using a removable anti-glare coating. Reference targets were placed onto the surface of the rotary table to enable multiple scans to be stitched together and to generate the solid 3D model. The endmill and 3D model are displayed in Fig. 1. The coordinate system was established by fitting a cylinder to the tool shank and defining a plane at the fluted end’s extreme point. The intersection of the cylinder’s axis and the plane was set as the origin of the coordinate system. The edge coordinates and scale of the 2Notice: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).