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UNIMILL for Prototype and Small-Batch Bevel Gear Manufacturing
September 26, 2018
UNIMILL is a milling method for the manufacture of prototype bevel gears using end mills or disk cutters. In contrast to general multi-axes machining that utilizes surface coordinates and normal vectors, UNIMILL does not depend on certain grid specifications and definitions regarding undercut and root fillet (which are difficult to obtain). UNIMILL tools follow the path of a face cutter head silhouette, while the face cutter is performing a generating (or form cutting) motion. The result is a faster process with surface finish characteristics very similar to the traditional cutting process.