Methods, Systems, And Devices For Designing and Manufacturing Flank Millable Components

A method of flank milling a component comprising:

• providing a component-geometry subroutine capable of determining a surface geometry of a flank millable component;
• said component-geometry subroutine configured to notify a user of said sub-routine when the user selects a geometry option that will result in the component not being flank millable;
• and
• providing a machine-instruction subroutine capable of converting a surface geometry calculated by said component-geometry subroutine into machine instructions for machining a flank millable component with the cutter of a milling machine;
• said machine-instruction subroutine configured to calculate machine instructions that result in minimal milling machine motion by simultaneously minimizing the motion of the milling machine in both azimuthal and polar directions.