What are the applications of 5-axis machining centers in automotive mold making?

What are the applications of 5-axis machining centers in automotive mold making?

Normally 5-axis machining for automotive mold making used process as below.

1,Machining of Deep Cavity Moulds

2,Mould side wall machining.

3,Surface processing of flat mold.

4,Irregular surfaces Machining of molds.

5,Machining of Inclined Holes on mold Inclined Surface.

6,Milling of straight lines without direction change of the mould.

Today we mainly introduce irregular surfaces.

For molds with irregular surfaces, 3-axis machining centers were generally used in the past. The direction of the cutting die is along the entire cutting path, and the cutting process does not change. At this moment, the cutting state of the tool tip cannot guarantee the quality of all parts of the mold.

The tool can be machined by a 5-axis machining center. This tool optimizes the direction of the entire machining path. At the same time, the tool can also perform linear motion. Every part of the mold surface will be more perfect.

Machining tools of different geometries

When a 5-axis machining center is used to machining a mold with a 3-dimensional curved plane, the working angle of the tool can be changed in any area of the machine tool to complete the machining of the geometric mold.Here is an automotive mold components machining with Suntime by 5-axis CNC machining.

In automotive mold components machining, the application of 5-axis machining center can avoid tool interference, and can machining complex parts that are difficult to process by ordinary 3-dimensional machine tools.

The processing of the ruled surface mold can adopt the side milling one-knife forming process, and the processing quality is good with high efficiency. For 3-dimensional curved surfaces, especially large plane machining, large-diameter end mills can machine end surfaces close to large curved surfaces, reducing cutting frequency and reducing residual height, which can effectively improve machining efficiency and surface quality. By clamping multiple space curved surfaces of the mold at one time, multi-process and multi-surface machining can be realized, and the machining efficiency and the mutual position accuracy of each curved surface can be improved.

The tool can always keep the workpiece in an effective cutting state when using a 5-axis machining center to process a mold . In some machining areas, large-sized tools can be used to avoid mutual interference. This tool has better rigidity, which can improve machining accuracy and machining efficiency.