For open sculptured concave surface machining by the toroidal cutter
a new simple and fast five-axis multi-point tool positioning strategy was presented. Constructing the offset surface
the relative location relationship between the toroidal surface of toroidal cutter and the design surface got equivalent to the relation between the circular curve of toroidal cutter and the offset surface. Then a new offset surface based on the first offset surface was formed
where the offset distance was equal to the allowed maximum scallop height. As the local coordinate system for the point on the new offset surface was determined by the normal direction
the minimum direction and the maximum direction of curvature
the parametric equation of circular curve in the space coordinate was easily obtained by coordinate transformation. With the improved algorithm for computing the minimum distance between curve and surface
the interference between the circular curve and the new offset surface for each tool axis was calculated
which was finished when the interference satisfied the required precision
thus the best tool position was achieved. An example shows that the new multi-point tool positioning strategy enables to produce enough effective cutting width with higher computing efficiency than the existing multi-point tool positioning strategies.
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