Method for machining the tooth flanks of bevel gear workpieces

A method for machining the tooth flanks of a bevel gear workpiece comprising the following steps:

• a) rotationally driving a gear-cutting tool and machining a bevel gear workpiece using a chip removal process including plunging the gear-cutting tool into the workpiece using a first machine setting up to a predefined depth into material of the bevel gear workpiece to machine a concave tooth flank and a convex tooth flank of at least one tooth gap of the bevel gear workpiece, and
• b) performing a correction machining of the concave tooth flank and the convex tooth flank of the at least one tooth gap including
• (i) one or more of (1) cutting free the concave tooth flank including rotating the workpiece in a first rotational direction to an angle defined by a predefined first absolute value relative to the gear-cutting tool;
• or (2) cutting free the convex tooth flank including rotating the workpiece in another rotational direction to an angle defined by a predefined second absolute value relative to the gear-cutting tool, thereby enlarging a gap width of the at least one tooth gap, and
• (ii) finish machining the concave tooth flank using a second machine setting, which differs from the first machine setting, and
• (iii) finish machining the convex tooth flank using a third machine setting, which differs from the second machine setting.