Endmill tools are used to represent flat endmills, ball-end mills, bull-nose mills and tapered endmills. The basic parameters on shown on the right.
Click here for common tool parameters.
For ballend tools, enter the diameter and click the Ballend checkbox and the radius will be calculated.
For flat end tapered tools there are three different ways to specify the taper angle, cutter length and diameters
Enter the Taper Angle, Diameter (which is the diameter of the tool at the top of the taper) and the Cutter Length.
Enter the Taper Angle, click the Diameter at Bottom checkbox, enter the Bottom Diameter and enter the Cutter Length.
Enter the Taper Angle, click the Diameter at Bottom checkbox, enter the Diameter (which is the diameter at the bottom of the taper) and Click the Compute from Shank button to have the Cutter Length computed for you.
Note: Tool End Type and Flute Angle are only used to document the tool and are not referenced in toolpath generation. Set Tool End Type to Single if it has flutes only on one end and to Double if it has flutes on both ends. Set Flute Angle to Standard for normal mills and to High for high helix mills.
