There are many types of endmills shapes, such as ordinary milling machines and CNC milling machines for processing grooves and linear contours, milling and boring machining centers for processing cavities, cores, and surface contours/contours.
The milling cutter is roughly divided into:
1. Flat-end milling: for fine milling or rough milling, milling grooves, removing a large amount of blanks, small area horizontal plane or contour fine milling;
2. Ball end milling: semi-finishing and finishing milling of curved surfaces; small cutters can finish milling small chamfers on steep surfaces/straight walls.
3. Round nose milling: for rough milling with small changes in the curved surface, fewer narrow and recessed areas, and more relatively flat areas.
4. Flat-end milling: With chamfering, it can be used for rough milling to remove a large amount of blanks, and it can also be used for fine milling of small chamfers on the flat surface (relative to the steep surface).
5. Forming end milling: including chamfering cutters, T-shaped cutters or drum cutters, tooth-shaped cutters, and inner R cutters.
6. Chamfering: The shape of the chamfering cutter is the same as the chamfering shape, and it is divided into milling cutters for round chamfering and oblique chamfering.
7. T-shaped: can mill T-slots.
8. Tooth-type : mill various types of teeth, such as gears.
9. Rough leather cutter: Rough milling cutter designed for cutting aluminum-copper alloy, which can be processed quickly.
There are two common materials for end milling cutting tool: high-speed steel and cemented carbide. Compared with the former, the latter has higher hardness and strong cutting force, which can increase the speed and feed rate, increase productivity, make the cutting tool inconspicuous, and process difficult-to-machine materials such as stainless steel and titanium alloy, but the cost is higher, It is easy to break the tool when the cutting force changes rapidly.
