Turn-milling
Make the best use of high-performance turn-milling complete machining centers
With Tebis, you can easily use machines with turning, milling and drilling functions. This saves you machine changes and reclamping and reduces logistics expenditures on the path to the finished workpiece. At the same time, you benefit from the greater accuracy of mill-turning, because the workpiece is turned, drilled and milled in the same setup. On machines with a primary and secondary spindle, you can automatically transfer parts and complete them on all sides without manual reclamping. Using all of these possibilities reliably and efficiently to operate turn-milling machines with the least possible user intervention and monitoring is one of the special strengths of the CAD/CAM process with Tebis.
Video
This video shows turn-milling of a high-quality aluminum wheel rim with a heart in the hub. The heart wheel rim weighs just two kilograms and is created from a 20-kilogram blank with only two setups for turning and milling. 2-axis to 5-axis milling is used; virtual machine technology ensures maximum collision protection.
Functions
Standardized tool management
Manage all of your tools for turning, drilling and milling in a common tool library. DIN/ISO cutters and holders can be created directly by specifying the type. Special tools like shaping, striking and side-milling tools are also supported. All individual components are available to you in a true-to-life representation and can be combined in tool assemblies. These form the basis for all collision checks.
End-to-end Job Manager for turn-milling
You can combine the machining operations of turning, drilling and milling in the Tebis Job Manager as needed to produce workpieces suitable for manufacturing. With the end-to-end material model, material removal on milling/turning is documented from the blank to the finished part . Then the currently available material can be used as the starting point for the next machining operation – from turning to milling and back again. In conjunction with the implemented automation, the machining functions automatically find the geometries to be machined in the part and calculate the toolpaths.
Determine turning profile
It is especially important in turn-milling to know the maximum possible contour for turning: in other words, the rotationally symmetrical envelope of the overall geometry. Tebis determines this with the click of a button.
Support for multi-channel machine tools
Ideal for parts with a large milling fraction: Tebis can be used to program toolpaths for sequential processing on machines with multiple tool and component holders. The individual steps – like milling with a milling head or turret, stabilizing with a centering tip or clamping with a sub spindle – can be combined in any way.
Simulation and NC output for turn-milling
Tebis reliably rules out collisions with all tool components during program calculation for turn-milling. Subsequent collision checking examines machine components and the traverse paths between individual toolpaths. This results in an end-to-end collision-free CNC program for all turning, drilling and milling operations. This CNC program also controls the machine units, including clamping elements, tailstocks or steady rests.
