Machining process and apparatus for machining
AssigneeROLLS-ROYCE plc
InventorsChristopher Alan SIMMONS, Mark David HANCOCK
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Abstract
A method of determining a tool path to machine a component, the method comprising the steps of: securing the component to a fixture having a zero point alignment datum, the component and the fixture having respective mobile reference points; aligning the fixture mobile reference points to target reference points on the machine tool; aligning a digitised model of the component to the component mobile reference points; determining the position of the component on the fixture from the component mobile reference points and the fixture mobile reference points; and adjusting a nominal tool path for the machine tool dependent on the position of the component.
Claims11
A method of determining a tool path to machine a component, the method comprising the steps of:
- securing the component to a fixture having a zero point alignment datum, the component and the fixture having respective mobile reference points;
- aligning the fixture mobile reference points to target reference points on a machine tool;
- aligning a digitised model of the component to the component mobile reference points;
- determining the position of the component on the fixture from the component mobile reference points and the fixture mobile reference points;
- and adjusting a nominal tool path for the machine tool dependent on the position of the component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.