In the same way, scalpels are used as a precision tool of choice for many surgeons, router bits, cutters, and chamfer mills are the tools of the trade for anyone who ply their trade with CNC machining.
They make it easy to craft and create parts and products used by the CNC machines, a huge part of the design phase is handled using custom-made software used by designers and engineers but the three tools are the ones that play a key role when it comes to making the final finished product.
For this reason, we need to fully understand what are they, how they must be handled and what each of them does. In this post, we are going to briefly go to give you a full rundown of each of these so that you can have a good idea of how you can handle these tasks.
What are Chamfer Mills and what do they do?
A Chamfer mill is a tool that can handle edge treatments on finished products, either to make them aesthetically appealing or to fulfill specific features related to design on them. Chamfer mills are mostly used to create radiused edges, angled edges, arc profiles, flat, angled edges, and bevels.
The major role of the chamfer mills is to eradicate the presence of sharped edges in parts and regions where they are not required. They are also vital in minimizing the use of deburring or filleting. These methods are also quite costly and means of achieving the same goal with complex tooling, but they can also affect the finished part with an uneven distribution of stress that will make it weaker.
CNC milling machine tools
What are cutting tools and how do they function?
They are commonly referred to as blades, their main tasks are the shaping of raw-materials that are being fed onto the CNC machines. The most common type of cutting tools is the end-mills, for machining they are mainly presented as carbide or HSS options of endless settings and variations allowing it to work with every type of material on the market.
The parts are mostly presented with different ranges and sizes, hardness, coatings, shanks. The cutting tools also provide you with the opportunity to work with custom drills that will make holes or handles the lathe work like screwing machinery or jabbering.
They are also equipped with some special presentations that can be implemented or used depending on the task at hand.
What are router bits and how do they work?
Router bits are normally used for carving using CNC machines, these tools are mostly used by engineers and technicians to have an excellent and superior finished product. Router bits are mostly popular with curators and artists who create customized products as they have higher precision and accuracy rates compared to the two above mentioned tools.
They also have sharper cutting edges making it easy to cut through raw-materials being fed onto the CNC table.