Contouring Tool Path Generation for Dieless CNC Forming

다이레스 CNC 포밍을 위한 등고선 공구경로 생성

  • 강재관 (경남대 기계자동화공학부) ;
  • 진영길 (경남대 대학원 기계공학과) ;
  • 윤세봉 (경남대 대학원 기계공학과) ;
  • 강병수 (경남대 대학원 기계공학과) ;
  • 염경섭 (경남대 대학원 기계공학과)
  • Published : 2005.06.01

Abstract

The sheet parts are formed with dies conventionally. But this conventional forming process is not suited to small volume and varied production for the reason of high cost. For the solution of this problem, a new forming process, which is called CNC incremental sheet forming, is being introduced. This process can form sheet parts without die, and is very well suited to small volume and varied production in space flight and automobile. In this paper, dieless CNC forming system based on a machining center is developed. A special device to grasp and pull the blank sheet built in the machining center and tool path generation S/W from STL file of 3-D model are developed. Several sheet parts are incrementally formed to verify the effectiveness of the developed system.

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