薄肉の壁とリブの加工

プラスチック射出成形金型やダイカスト金型には、リブや薄肉の壁が多くあります。リブなどは、放電加工（スパーク・エロージョン）よりもコスト的に有利なことから、ミリング加工が多くなっています。通常、小径の長尺または超長尺の超硬ツールが使用されます。また、それぞれのリブ形状に合わせたカスタムソリューション（RibCutter）も可能です。
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以下の加工ステップのツール概要:
  1. 粗旋削
  2. 仕上げ

Roughing

Roughing operations are responsible for most of the chip removal capacity. Special milling strategies such as high-feed machining or trochoidal milling can reduce machining time and thus increase profitability. In addition to tools with indexable inserts and solid carbide milling cutters, high-performance milling cutters with special roughing geometry are used.

  • OptiMill®-3D-BN

    Solid carbide ball cutter
    • High precision machining of 3D contours
    • High precision milling cutters with a high level of radius accuracy
    • Wide selection for hard and soft machining of steel
    • Variants z=2 und z=4, with and without working depth
    • Available in cylindrical and conical forms

  • OptiMill®-3D-CR

    Solid carbide corner radius milling cutter
    • Finishing of 3D moulds with a high-precision corner radius
    • High precision corner radius with high level of radius accuracy
    • Wide selection for hard and soft machining of steel
    • Different numbers of teeth available
    • Available in cylindrical and conical forms

  • RibCutter

    Solid carbide special milling cutter
    • For the machining of deep ribs and contours
    • Special cutting edge geometry
    • Excellent surface finish
    • Extreme time savings due to the elimination of time-consuming multi-pass milling
    • Available as a ball/corner radius milling cutter and with a straight face

Finishing

The finishing process removes the remaining material in order to achieve the final shape. After pre-finishing, stock removal is 0.05-0.1 mm for hardened materials or 0.1-0.3 mm for soft materials. Ball and/or corner radius milling cutters are the tools of choice, regardless of the final contours of the workpiece.

  • OptiMill®-3D-BN

    Solid carbide ball cutter
    • High precision machining of 3D contours
    • High precision milling cutters with a high level of radius accuracy
    • Wide selection for hard and soft machining of steel
    • Variants z=2 und z=4, with and without working depth
    • Available in cylindrical and conical forms

  • OptiMill®-3D-CR

    Solid carbide corner radius milling cutter
    • Finishing of 3D moulds with a high-precision corner radius
    • High precision corner radius with high level of radius accuracy
    • Wide selection for hard and soft machining of steel
    • Different numbers of teeth available
    • Available in cylindrical and conical forms

  • RibCutter

    Solid carbide special milling cutter
    • For the machining of deep ribs and contours
    • Special cutting edge geometry
    • Excellent surface finish
    • Extreme time savings due to the elimination of time-consuming multi-pass milling
    • Available as a ball/corner radius milling cutter and with a straight face