PROGRAMMING A 3 AXIS MACHINING CENTRE WITH TOPSOLID - PART I - MODELLING OF PIECES

摘要

In these papers, part I and II, we present some results obtained on Computer Aided Programming of machine tools acquired by a group of students that followed an introductory course in TopSolid 2009 at the Faculty of Mechanics from Craiova and a traineeship in a factory that uses this software in production. Since the using of this software in our area is relatively recent, in the part I of these papers, we have found useful a short presentation of TopSolid software, in order to start focusing on the CAD module. The chosen case study in this paper refers to the modeling of a part that requires the use of the main features of this module and also the use of the main manufacturing processes that usually may be meet on a three-axis machining center.