Analysis of the wear on machined groove profiles using reverse engineering technology

One of the key components in making Industry 4.0 a reality includes machines that are able to produce re-quired products and components faster, more precisely and more flexibly than ever before based on so-called reverse engineering technology. Reverse engineering is a technology which enables rapid acquisition of data for CAD, CAM, CAE, thereby greatly shortening the development, design and fabrication of parts. In general, analog data is converted to digital data, which is further processed. The paper deals with the analysis of prototype models of disc milling cutters with different blade profiles. The inspection of the shape of the disc-type prototypes is based on the reading of the digitized reference CAD model (workpiece with machined grooves), the subsequent positioning of the digitized protrusions of the disc mill cutters (milling cutter with edge profile 1, milling cutter with edge profile 8) with respect to this reference CAD model, creating a colour map of the deviations at the selected points. The aim of the paper was to analyse the resulting wear (deviation of the dimensions at selected points) on the prototype of the disc milling cutters with the profiles of the blades 1 and 8, which was simplified on the workpiece with the machined profiles of the grooves 1 to 4. © 2021 Manufacturing Technology. All Rights Reserved.